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# OneWire GPIO Binding
This binding reads temperature values from OneWire bus sensors connected to the GPIO bus on Raspberry Pi.
# Supported Things
Temperature sensors. Tested successfully with DS18B20 sensor on Raspberry Pi 3.
# Binding Configuration
The binding requires OneWire sensor to be properly connected to Raspberry Pi GPIO bus, "w1_gpio" and "wire" kernel modules should be loaded. Configuration is proper when /sys/bus/w1/devices folder is present, and contains sensor's data.
# Thing Configuration
The sensors are visible in the system as folders containing files with sensor data. By default all OneWire GPIO devices are stored in /sys/bus/w1/devices/DEVICE_ID_FOLDER, and the temperature value is available in the file "w1_slave". The Thing needs full path to the w1_slave file. Note the values in sysfs are in Celsius.
Optional parameter precision makes it easier to lower precision of the sensor value, i.e. precision 1 makes sensor value to show only one digit after the floating point, precision 2 - shows 2 digits. It makes precision reduction with round up, i.e. 20.534C with precision 1 will be 20.5C, 20.555 with same precision will be 20.6C. Allowed values are from 0 to 3. Default value of parameter is 3(max precision).
In the thing file, this looks e.g. like
Thing onewiregpio:sensor:livingRoom "Living room" [gpio_bus_file="/sys/bus/w1/devices/28-0000061b587b/w1_slave",refresh_time=30,precision=1]
# Channels
The devices supports currently one channel - "temperature" which allows to read temperature from OneWire temperature sensor.
# Full Example
sample onewiregpio.things file content:
Thing onewiregpio:sensor:livingroom "Living room" [gpio_bus_file="/sys/bus/w1/devices/28-0000061b587b/w1_slave",refresh_time=30]
sample onewiregpio.items file content (implements QuantityType for unit conversion):
Number:Temperature LivingRoomTemperature "Temperature: [%.2f %unit%]" <temperature> { channel="onewiregpio:sensor:livingroom:temperature" }
sample demo.sitemap file content:
sitemap demo label="Main Menu"
{
Text item=LivingRoomTemperature
}