W1-GPIO - One-Wire Interface
One-wire is a single-wire communication bus typically used to connect sensors to the Pi.
The LubanCat supports one-wire on any GPIO pin, but the default is GPIO 4.
To enable the one-wire interface you need to add the following line to /boot/config.txt, before rebooting your Pi:
dtoverlay=w1-gpio
or
dtoverlay=w1-gpio,gpiopin=x
if you would like to use a custom pin (the default is GPIO 4)
Alternatively you can enable the one-wire interface on demand using raspi-config
, or the following:
sudo modprobe w1-gpio
Newer kernels (4.9.28 and later) allow you to use dynamic overlay loading instead, including creating multiple 1-Wire busses to be used at the same time:
sudo dtoverlay w1-gpio gpiopin=4 pullup=0 # header pin 7
sudo dtoverlay w1-gpio gpiopin=17 pullup=0 # header pin 11
sudo dtoverlay w1-gpio gpiopin=27 pullup=0 # header pin 13
once any of the steps above have been performed, and discovery is complete you can list the devices that your LubanCat has discovered via all 1-Wire busses (by default GPIO 4), like so:
ls /sys/bus/w1/devices/
Using w1-gpio on the LubanCat typically needs a 4.7 kΩ pull-up resistor connected between the GPIO pin and a 3.3v supply (e.g. header pin 1 or 17). Other means of connecting 1-Wire devices to the LubanCat are also possible, such as using i2c to 1-Wire bridge chips.
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