From 0b4a16b7064b875cadf3584f154757d73ad3655b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: borisneubert <borisneubert@2b470e98-0d58-463d-a4d8-8e2adae1ed80>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 09:42:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] removed DISCONNECT of owserver in case of undefined read
 result

git-svn-id: https://fhem.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fhem/trunk/fhem@2794 2b470e98-0d58-463d-a4d8-8e2adae1ed80
---
 FHEM/10_OWServer.pm | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/FHEM/10_OWServer.pm b/FHEM/10_OWServer.pm
index 732f86249..7f8200011 100644
--- a/FHEM/10_OWServer.pm
+++ b/FHEM/10_OWServer.pm
@@ -274,7 +274,10 @@ OWServer_Read($@)
     $ret =~ s/^\s+//g if(defined($ret));
   }
 
-  if(!defined($ret)) { OWServer_CloseDev($hash); }
+  # if a device does not exist, the server returns undef
+  # therefore it's not a good idea to blame the connection
+  # and remove the server in such a case.
+  #if(!defined($ret)) { OWServer_CloseDev($hash); }
   return $ret;
 }
 
@@ -312,9 +315,10 @@ sub
 OWServer_Find($@)
 {
   my ($hash,$slave)= @_;
-  my $owserver= $hash->{fhem}{owserver};
 
   return undef unless(defined($hash->{fhem}{owserver}));
+
+  my $owserver= $hash->{fhem}{owserver};
   my @dir= split(",",$owserver->dir("/"));
   my $path= undef;
   for my $entry (@dir) {