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After hours of trying, you are my last resort of hope.

I'm using the DS18B20 Temperature Sensor and tried to install it based on this OneWire-tutorial here:
http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Learning/OneWire

As I understand it the breadboard should look like this:

(the flat surface is facing to the front in this picture)
Unfortunately I have no 4.7k resistor, so I took two 2.2K resistors.

The code (taken from the tutorial) is this one:

Code:

#include <OneWire.h>

// DS18S20 Temperature chip i/o
OneWire ds(10);  // on pin 10

void setup(void) {
  // initialize inputs/outputs
  // start serial port
  Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop(void) {
  byte i;
  byte present = 0;
  byte data[12];
  byte addr[8];

  if ( !ds.search(addr)) {
      Serial.print("No more addresses.\n");
      ds.reset_search();
      return;
  }

  Serial.print("R=");
  for( i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
    Serial.print(addr[i], HEX);
    Serial.print(" ");
  }

  if ( OneWire::crc8( addr, 7) != addr[7]) {
      Serial.print("CRC is not valid!\n");
      return;
  }

  if ( addr[0] == 0x10) {
      Serial.print("Device is a DS18S20 family device.\n");
  }
  else if ( addr[0] == 0x28) {
      Serial.print("Device is a DS18B20 family device.\n");
  }
  else {
      Serial.print("Device family is not recognized: 0x");
      Serial.println(addr[0],HEX);
      return;
  }

  ds.reset();
  ds.select(addr);
  ds.write(0x44,1);         // start conversion, with parasite power on at the end

  delay(1000);     // maybe 750ms is enough, maybe not
  // we might do a ds.depower() here, but the reset will take care of it.

  present = ds.reset();
  ds.select(addr);    
  ds.write(0xBE);         // Read Scratchpad

  Serial.print("P=");
  Serial.print(present,HEX);
  Serial.print(" ");
  for ( i = 0; i < 9; i++) {           // we need 9 bytes
    data[i] = ds.read();
    Serial.print(data[i], HEX);
    Serial.print(" ");
  }
  Serial.print(" CRC=");
  Serial.print( OneWire::crc8( data, 8), HEX);
  Serial.println();
}

I am using the OneWire 2.0 library: http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_libs_OneWire.html


All I get in the Serial Monitor is "No more addresses."
What does this error mean? How can I fix it?

Thank you so much for your answers!

[Reply #1 on:]

The resistor should be connected to the 5V line rather than Gnd.  (Pull up, not pull down).

[Reply #2 on:]

Hi Pluggy

Thank you for your fast answer!

I tried that. Now the setup looks like this:


But still I get "No more addresses."
Any other guesses?

[Reply #3 on:]

Have you got another DS18B20 you could try ?  If you're using 'stock' code it should work.  You could try just one 2.2k resistor or a 10k if you have one (its not cast in stone , nor an exact science).  No more addresses suggests it isn't seeing anything on the bus.

[Reply #4 on:]

some additional tests I would do:
- test pin 10 - just a simple digitalRead(10) HIGH/LOW test
- use other cables.
- use another place at the breadboard

[Reply #5 on:]

Hi Pluggy and robtillaart

Thank you so much for your input!

I tried the following:
- use another place at the breadboard  and
- use other cables.
- just one 2.2K resistor instead of the 4.7K-resistor

Not it finds the DS18B20!

Great!

PS. @all: if you haven't tried it out yet, use the Dallas Temperature Control Library:
http://milesburton.com/index.php/Dallas_Temperature_Control_Library
So much more easier to use than the demo-code in the tutorial!