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owmon(1)

owmon - Monitor for owserver settings and statistics

OWMON(1) One-Wire File System OWMON(1)

owmon - Monitor for owserver settings and statistics

owmon -s owserver-tcp-port

See the file man1/description.1so.

owserver (1) is the backend component of the OWFS 1-wire bus control system. owserver (1) arbitrates access to the bus from multiple client processes. The physical bus is usually connected to a serial or USB port, and other processes connect to owserver (1) over network sockets (tcp port).

Frontend clients include a filesystem representation: owfs (1) , and a webserver: owhttpd (1). Direct language bindings are also available, e.g: owperl (3).

There are also many light-weight clients that can only talk to owserver (1) and not to the 1-Wire bus directly. They include shell and multiple language modules (perl, Visual Basic, python,...)

owserver protocol

All the owserver (1) clients use the owserver protocol for communication. The owserver protocol is a well documented tcp/ip client/server protocol. Assigned the "well known port" default of 4304.

owmon (1) is connects to owserver (1) and displays the bus structure and contents of the interface, statistics and settings directories.

TCP port or IPaddress:port for owserver
The tcp port (IP:port) for the "upstream" owserver.

If owserver (1) is started:
owserver -p 4304 -d /dev/ttyS0
owserver on tcp port 4304 and connects to a physical 1-wire bus on a serial port.

You can monitor owserver (1) with
owmon -s 4304 /

owmon (1) is a pure Tcl/TK program and will run wherever Tcl/TK is available (Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Unix)

owserver protocol

http://www.owfs.org/index.php?page=owserver-protocol

http://www.tcl.tk

See the file man1/seealso.1so.

http://www.owfs.org

Paul Alfille (paul.alfille@gmail.com)

2007 OWTAP Manpage

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