I know that this is an old post but I have recently build an RFID system. It might be useful to anyone who bump onto this thread
My tutorial makes use of 125khz tags: http://behindthesciences.com/electronic ... ag-reader/

I hope that this is useful to someone

Hi gilardh, It seems that you have found a "bug" in the latest kernel. I tried to change the timeout settings on the latest version of Raspbian and you are right, the value stays 10! I also found other issues such as: The w1 interface is now disabled by default and needs to be enabled in the /boot/c...

Hi gilardh
You have to change the timer settings (w1_master_timeout) in /sys/bus/w1/devices/

To do that you have to run: You will notice that w1_master_timeout will change from 10 secs to 1 sec.

I hope this helps.

Hi there,

I have a tutorial on how to do it on my webpage. My code is written in python.
http://www.behindthesciences.com

Regards,
Mr B.T.S

Hi there,

I have a good example on how to do it on my website. The link is: http://www.behindthesciences.com/electr ... ttonsystem

Regards,
Mr B.T.S