pachube feed closing after some time

Hi,

I have problems with my pachube feed.
I use a Arduino Duemilanove with a w5100 Ethernetshield and a DS18S20 to upload the temp every 10 seconds to pachube.com

It works, but after 1-3 hours the upload freezes.
When i reset the Arduino with reset button it works again for some time.
I tried to give power with USB (first thougt USB from PC would go to a standby mode) and also with an external power source, but the same.

The realy strange is, when it´s freezed and I connect with the serial monitor, it also works again.

maybe I have a overflow, or my ethernetshield is not the best (cheap ebay one)

here is the code:

#include <SPI.h>
#include <Ethernet.h>
#include <Pachube.h>
#include <OneWire.h>

OneWire  ds(8);  // on pin 8

byte mac[] = {0x90, 0xA2, 0xDA, 0x00, 0x10, 0x8f};
char apiKey[] = "YOUURKEYYOURKEYg_qmTPo_nUVsCeXS6yUTWITMIxaVf";
long feedId = 44942;
char datastreamId[] = "stisi";
long prevMillis = 0;
float celsius;
PachubeClient client = PachubeClient(apiKey);

void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(9600);
  client.connectWithMac(mac);
}

void loop()
{
 
 unsigned long curMillis = millis();
 if(curMillis - prevMillis > 10000)   
  {
   
     byte i;
  byte present = 0;
  byte type_s;
  byte data[12];
  byte addr[8];
  
  
  if ( !ds.search(addr)) {
    
    ds.reset_search();
    delay(250);
    return;
  }
  
  

 
  Serial.println();
 
  // the first ROM byte indicates which chip
  switch (addr[0]) {
    case 0x10:
      Serial.println("  Chip = DS18S20");  // or old DS1820
      type_s = 1;
      break;
    case 0x28:
      Serial.println("  Chip = DS18B20");
      type_s = 0;
      break;
    case 0x22:
      Serial.println("  Chip = DS1822");
      type_s = 0;
      break;
    default:
      Serial.println("Device is not a DS18x20 family device.");
      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

 
  for ( i = 0; i < 9; i++) {           // we need 9 bytes
    data[i] = ds.read();
    
  }
  

  // convert the data to actual temperature

  unsigned int raw = (data[1] << 8) | data[0];
  if (type_s) {
    raw = raw << 3; // 9 bit resolution default
    if (data[7] == 0x10) {
      // count remain gives full 12 bit resolution
      raw = (raw & 0xFFF0) + 12 - data[6];
    }
  } else {
    byte cfg = (data[4] & 0x60);
    if (cfg == 0x00) raw = raw << 3;  // 9 bit resolution, 93.75 ms
    else if (cfg == 0x20) raw = raw << 2; // 10 bit res, 187.5 ms
    else if (cfg == 0x40) raw = raw << 1; // 11 bit res, 375 ms
    // default is 12 bit resolution, 750 ms conversion time
  }
  celsius = (float)raw / 16.0;
  
  Serial.print("Temperatur = ");
  Serial.print(celsius);
  Serial.print(" Celsius, ");
  //ende tempmessung  
  prevMillis = curMillis;
  }
    else{
    // send to the Pachube client
    client.updateFeed(feedId, datastreamId, celsius);
    }
}

I use the new pachube lib:

https://github.com/blawson/PachubeArduino/zipball/master

Thank you!

I use a Arduino Duemilanove with a w5100 Ethernetshield and a DS18S20 to upload the temp every 10 seconds to pachube.com

What are you measuring the temperature of that you need to store a new value every 10 seconds?

Nothing special, it´s just a test run, 10 seconds is the default time of the pachube lib (min 5 seconds on pachube servers).

Anyway what could be the problem?
Is it the communication between the ethernetshield and the arduinoboard, or the ethernetshield itself?
Is there a way to initialize/reset the ethernetshield without resetting the Duemilanove?

Thanks

stisi:
Is there a way to initialize/reset the ethernetshield without resetting the Duemilanove?

The Ethernet library does that automatically when calling Ethernet.begin(...).

More details on:
How to put Ethernet shield to sleep?

Cordially,
Alexandre