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Hi

I'm using this code i a sh file:
ude_temp="$( cat /sys/bus/w1/devices/28-0000056xxxba/w1_slave | sed -n 's/^.*\(t=[^ ]*\).*/\1/p' | sed 's/t=//' | awk '{x=$1}END{print(x/1000)}')"

echo $ude_temp

This will echo the temperatur like this (left row):

25.0625 --> 25.06
10.125 --> 10.13
0.5 --> 0.50
0 --> 0.00
-0.5 --> -0.5
-10.125 --> -10.13
-25.0625 --> -25.06

But how can I change the output to 2 decimals (right row)?

Try this

rpdom wrote:Try this

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cat /sys/bus/w1/devices/28-0000057b716b/w1_slave | sed -n 's/^.*t=\([0-9]*\)\([0-9][0-9]\)[0-9]$/\1.\2/p'

I have tested it now, but it only work if t= to a 4 digital number like 8375, not -8375, 83, 8 and so on... Any way to fix that?

Ah, ok. I had not tested it with numbers with less than 4 digits or negative. I will look into it.

I assumed that t= will be at least 0000 for 0°C. Negatives should be easy, just change the first [0-9] to [-0-9].

edit: With the assistance of a bag of frozen peas I have been able to check and see that the reading does indeed start to drop trailing digits between 1°C and -1°C. That might be an issue with the w1-therm driver. Really it ought to pad out to three decimal places for consistency. There should be a way to work around it, but it might be a bit of a bodge.

You could use perl. Something like:-
Perl has a printf function similar to the C programming language.
reads real number from standard input in to $_. Divide by 1000 and then print out the number with three digits after the decimal place.

AndyD wrote:You could use perl. Something like:-

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ude_temp="$( cat /sys/bus/w1/devices/28-0000056xxxba/w1_slave | sed -n 's/^.*\(t=[^ ]*\).*/\1/p' | sed 's/t=//' | perl -ne 'printf "%.3f", $_/1000;')"

Perl has a printf function similar to the C programming language.

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perl -ne 'printf "%.3f", $_/1000;'

reads real number from standard input in to $_. Divide by 1000 and then print out the number with three digits after the decimal place.

That works nicely! Had not thought of using perl, thank you very much.

Thank you for spending time on my problem, both of you

No problems. You could replace the two sed commands with perl as well if you wanted.

AndyD wrote:No problems. You could replace the two sed commands with perl as well if you wanted.

Would it be more efficient / simple?

Troels wrote:Would it be more efficient / simple?

Possibly a little more efficient, as you could do the same with one execution of perl, rather than executing sed twice and then perl. To be honest though if you aren't measuring temperature at a high frequency it won't really matter. If it works and you are happy with it, leave it as it is.

It'll work well in perl, or you could use one invocation of sed I think that will work for negative values and small values too. It might display "-0.00" for readings between -0.001 and -0.009, but I don't think the DS18B20 will give any readings in that range.