[Weather] NSLU2 (SLUG), OWFS vs OWHTTPD, owwnogui, and the 1wire Weather Stations

[Paul Davis]

I'm soliciting input from others on the list that have been using the
LinkSys NSLU2 (SLUG) for 1wire operations.

I've finally got my SLUG operational (unslung 6.8) and de-underclocked.
Now I'm mulling over different ideas on how to pull the weather station
(and other 1wire) data from my SLUG and do something useful with it. I'm
wondering if anyone else is using the owfs/owhttpd approach, or if you
are all using owwnogui. I'd be interested in the reasoning for your
decisions regarding one vs. the other.

In my case, I have more devices to monitor than just the weather station
and associated sensors, so I opted for owfs. I still have to determine
whether it's better read the values from owfs and push the data out to a
data collection/processing server OR to pull the data from the SLUG
remotely via owhttpd.

My aim is to have the SLUG be a low power data collection system for the
1wire sensors and I'm not doing any local data storage. It's running off
a 1GB usb stick, so I do have room for other programs, web pages, etc.
but I do not want to use it for storing 1wire data. The 1wire network
consists of various branches connected through a single hub and then to
the USB 1wire adapter on the SLUG.

So what do you guys think? Push or pull?

Paul