Ultra1Wire3 HSPI - Screenshots

[Ultrajones]

Ultra1Wire3 HSPI is the first plug-in I converted to HomeSeer3. I took the opportunity to completely re-write the code using the techniques I have learned throughout the years of writing HomeSeer plug-ins.

The plug-in has been sent to HomeSeer for review and posting. In the meantime, here are a few screenshots and a link to the Ultra1Wire3 User's Guide.

http://automatedhomeonline.com/HomeS...sers_Guide.pdf

Regards,
Ultrajones

[Pete]

Very nice!

I have a few of the Temp0X devices and was going to give your plugin a try connecting one of them to a Quantech serial server in the basement talking to the HS3 box on the second floor.

[Ultrajones]

Ultra1Wire3 HSPI has been posted and is now available via the HomeSeer3 updater. Please post questions or comments in this thread.

Regards,
Ultrajones

[Jon798]

This is great and is nearly all I need so I can scrap my script-based 1Wire interfacing in favour of this. One thing I've noticed is that despite setting temperature units to C and restarting HS, they still display as F in the device view (correct centigrade numbers, just with deg F suffix instead of deg C).

The other thing that would be really useful is to be able to update different devices with different frequency. I use a couple of MS-TL sensors to monitor light levels outside to add into my lighting control logic. They appear as 'smart battery monitors' as they are based on DS2438s, but the 'humidity' is actually 'light level' and I check this every 10 seconds which might seem stupidly often, but in practise was what I needed to get fast enough response to thick clouds coming over on a dull day (very old house with low ceilings and small windows).

I wouldn't want to bother polling (most) temperatures much more than once every 5 or 10 minutes, though, as they don't change that dynamically and I'd just end up filling a database with unnecessary data.

Maybe one option would be to poll the device (OW Server in my case) as fast as it will let you and then just update each device according to it's own configured frequency?

Anyway - it's great as is; these changes would make it about perfect for me at least.

Cheers,

Jon.

[Jon798]

OK, so I read the manual, and discovered the 'there's a bug in HS that prevents the plugin updating value/status pairs, so you need to delete the devices and let the plugin recreate them'.

So please ignore the deg C comments above.

But I have set up a couple of smart battery monitor devices as light level devices and the type is still shown as humidity and there's no 'light levels' option on the graphing page (very impressed by the graphing by the way).

Cheers,

Jon.

[vasrc]

[Ultrajones]

Hello. Looks like the code is skipping the TEMP08 initialization. I'll get the fix posted ASAP. In the mean time, you can fix this issue by connecting to your TEMP08 and sending the following commands:

SIDon
STDC
SPT00

Regards,
Ultrajones

[vasrc]

That worked!

Thanks,
Z

[Jon798]

Hello,

I got my HS3 install all messed up with the recent .16 upgrade and ended up reinstalling. However I can't get Ultra1Wire3 to spark back into life.

I've tried deleting all the devices, uninstalling the plugin, restarting HS3 any time I thought it should be done and I've also tried copying various .db3 files and .ini files from the backup of my install, but I can't make it work.

Uninstalling the plugin, then deleting everything 'ultra1wire3' from the config , data and html directories and then reinstalling creates the data/ultra1wire3 directory, but a new database never appears...

I've pasted an extract of the log below:-

09/08/2013 12:13:42...HomeSeerV~~!~~3.0.0.16
09/08/2013 12:13:42...HomeSeerL~~!~~True
09/08/2013 12:13:42...HomeSeerU~~!~~0 Days 0 Hours 0 Minutes 17 Seconds
09/08/2013 12:13:42...Debug~~!~~Entered InitIO() function.
09/08/2013 12:13:42...Debug~~!~~Entered Version() function.
09/08/2013 12:13:42...Informational~~!~~Ultra1Wire3 version 3.0.4947.36298 initializing...
09/08/2013 12:13:42...Debug~~!~~Entered InitPluginDevices() function.
09/08/2013 12:13:42...Debug~~!~~Updating existing HomeSeer 1-Wire Sensor Checking device.
09/08/2013 12:13:42...Debug~~!~~Entered InitializeMainDatabase() function.
09/08/2013 12:13:42...Debug~~!~~Entered OpenDBConn() function.
09/08/2013 12:13:42...Error~~!~~System.Configuration.ConfigurationError sException
09/08/2013 12:13:42...Error~~!~~System.Configuration.ConfigurationError sException: Failed to find or load the registered .Net Framework Data Provider.
at System.Data.Common.DbProviderFactories.GetFactory(DataRow providerRow)
at System.Data.Common.DbProviderFactories.GetFactory(String providerInvariantName)
at HSPI_ULTRA1WIRE3.Database.OpenDBConn(DbConnection& objConn, String strDbProviderFactory, String strConnectionString)
09/08/2013 12:13:42...Error~~!~~System.NullReferenceException
09/08/2013 12:13:42...Error~~!~~System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at HSPI_ULTRA1WIRE3.Database.OpenDBConn(DbConnection& objConn, String strDbProviderFactory, String strConnectionString)
at HSPI_ULTRA1WIRE3.Database.InitializeMainDatabase()
09/08/2013 12:13:42...Debug~~!~~Entered Version() function.
09/08/2013 12:13:42...Informational~~!~~Ultra1Wire3 version 3.0.4947.36298 initialization complete.

Is this something I've done wrong, or related to the HS3 upgrade (I never saw Ultra1Wire3 working with .16)

Cheers,
Jon.

[Jon798]

To follow up... On a hunch after reading the 3.0.0.16 and ZWave 3.0.0.2 thread, I copied the 2 SQLite dlls from the HS3\Bin folder in the HS3 folder and now it's working again...

Seems HST have moved where they keep their dlls, expecting each plugin provider to put their own dlls in their own folder under HS3\Bin.

Cheers,

Jon.

[Ultrajones]

Thanks for letting me know. I tried updating the plug-in to use SQLite in its own bin directory, but I cannot get it working. At this point, the only work-around is to copy the 2 files into the HomeSeer3 root directory as you indicated. I sent an e-mail to HomeSeer asking for assistance.

Regards,
Ultrajones

[Ultrajones]

To follow up... On a hunch after reading the 3.0.0.16 and ZWave 3.0.0.2 thread, I copied the 2 SQLite dlls from the HS3\Bin folder in the HS3 folder and now it's working again...

Seems HST have moved where they keep their dlls, expecting each plugin provider to put their own dlls in their own folder under HS3\Bin.

Cheers,

Jon.

Thanks for letting me know. This issue is now resolved.

Regards,
Ultrajones

[Jon798]

[mark_anderson_us]

"Upgrade"

Hi UltraJones

I'm just getting started with 1-wire. I ported my config over to HS3, but I think it will be some weeks before I can fully switch over to HS3 (due to HSTouch support).

I would like to get my 1-wire stuff setup and tested on HS2 (got my OW-SERVER and some temp sensors). IF HSTouch isn't ready in 30 days what's it gonna cost me if I have to buy HS2 version and then upgrade to HS3 version?

Any way around having to buy it twice?

Regards

Mark

[Hobitten]

Hi,

I have problems writing to the database.
Current view says:
Inserts 211
Failures 2.696


I'm new to HS3 (in fact new to HS).
I have installed HS3 and Ultra1Wire3 HSPI and configured it only to look at my OWServer equipped with 3 1Wire temp probes. The OWServer were discovered immediatly and the OWServer responses to the polling updating the temperatures on the HS3 view.

My problem is, that data are almost not written to the database (211 inserts 2.696 failures, and I see none of the 211 rows in a SqLite browser).

In the debug there are lots of entries starting "Sending OWServer broadcast ... INSERT INTO...VALUES ( 1, 3, 1402129257, 18,3125)" with no reporting af failures in the insert.

Question:
How should I remedy to make my data written to the database?

OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - Work Station 6.1.7601 Service Pack: 1.0
HS3: HS3 Pro Edition 3.0.0.96 (Windows) in trial mode
Ultra1Wire3 HSPI: 3.0.5202.21951

Thanks in advance
Hobitten