Temperature Sensor

Syrus can communicate with compatible 1-wire digital thermometers such as the DS18B20. We recommend this one from Diymore. The DS18B20 is capable of communicating in two modes, a normal power mode and a parasite mode which derives power from the data line, eliminating the need for an external power supply.

For any 1-wire accessories such as temperature and ibutton sensors, up to 64 total sensors can be supported simultaneously. This means if you want to read an ibutton you can have a maximum 63 other temperature sensors connected all reading temperatures at the same time. Note that this does not affect the authorized/whitelisted list of ibuttons, up to 500 ibuttons or 1-wire accessories can be authorized for use with the apx-onewire tool.

General Overview

The way it works is that you connect one or several temperature sensors in normal or parasite mode to Syrus
You read the temperatures with the apx-onewire temperature getall command
Give your temperature sensors aliases and install them

Installation

Syrus 4 Datasheet with Pinout

1-wire Wiring Pinout (found in 14-pin molex)

Parasite mode

Temperature Wires	Signal	Description	Syrus Signal
Yellow	DQ	Data signal, connect to the Syrus white/red 1-wire cable. Make sure to use the 14-pin molex white/red cable.	1WIRE
Red	PWR	Connect to the Syrus electrical ground cable in parasite mode	GND
Black	GND	Connect to the Syrus electrical ground cable in parasite mode.	GND

Configuration

Once you have the temperature sensors connected, you can use the apx-onewire to read temperature

$ sudo apx-onewire temperature get_all

{
    "temperatures": [
        {
            "alias": "tempsen1",
            "id": "8D01144D07DBAA28",
            "value": 22.625,
            "connected": true,
            "epoch": 1608047806
        },
        {
            "alias": null,
            "id": "3C12345D07DBAB29",
            "value": 22.437,
            "connected": true,
            "epoch": 1608047807
        }
    ]
}

Afterwards you can set an alias and proceed to install on a real life scenario.

Redis Interaction

To notify changes on a temperature sensor, the onewire application publishes:

onewire/notification/temperature/state onewire_temp_json_object

"PUBLISH" "onewire/notification/temperature/state" "{\"alias\":null,\"id\":\"8D01144D07DBAA28\",\"value\":27.437,\"connected\":true,\"epoch\":1610658389}"

Tips

The ID of the 1-wire sensors is not printed on the temperature sensor, so you'll have to connect one at a time and use the get_all command to read the values, then assign an alias to each sensor.