Help - What gets sent to my CM12U?

[PaulHewr6]

Hi,

I run homeseer 1.7 and have been running v1.x for 7 years and love it.

I now program Crestron control systems and want to integrate my CM12 into it, plus I want a challenge, and it has been!!!!!!

I have read the Protocol Doc and set the serial port up but I cannot control ANYTHING!!! I do get a character appear every second, if viewing from hyperterm it is a % I think.

I work in Hex allot due to the devices I have to control, but cannot get control of the CM12

Am I supposed to sending data in HEX or Binary format?

Can someone please give me some examples to set me on the right track, like L1 on and L1 off. If I can crack that, I will write a module and associated Crestron code to help others.

I look forward to hearing from someone!!!! ;-)

Regards,

Paul

[GARYAUTOHO]

Cm11a/cm12a

THAT CHAR EVERY SECOND IS ASCll CHR "165" HEX "A5"
REQUEST FOR CORRECT DATE/TIME FROM CM11A
YOU MUST RESPOND WITH THAT DATA [IN X10 DOC]
YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO CLEAR IT USING HOMESEER ACTIVEX [DOWNLOAD]
UNTILL THAT IS DONE THE CM11A WILL NOT RESPOND
GARY

[rocco]

. . . and you can consider Gary an authority.

The CM11A/CM12A will not do anything if it thinks it has invalid time. Unless you intend to use internal timed-events, the time is not useful. I believe a time of all zeros works fine.

Since many people run the CM11A/CM12A without batteries, this problem would occur at every power-up. Many software packages just load some dummy time upon initialization.

[GARYAUTOHO]

Cm11/cm12

THANK'S ROCCO
PROGRAM THE CM11/12 WITH HEX OR ASCll
DEPENDING ON YOUR COMPILER
WITH OR WITHOUT BATTERY YOU MUST ANSWER THE REQUEST FOR TIME
I THINK YOU CAN JUST FILL WITH THE CORRECT # OF SPACE'S
I DO SET THE CORRECT TIME BECOUSE OF DOWNLOADING
NOTE THE CM11A REQUIRES DAY OF YEAR ie: FEB 13 = 44 DEC 31 = 365
ALSO DAY OF WEEK M,TU,W ECT.

[PaulHewr6]

Gary / Rocco
Thanks for everything so far!!
It was coming back with 5Ah, which means it was waiting to transfer data from the serial port. So i sent it a C3h and it downloaded info 03h 02h BEh B3h.
From allot of testing BEh = L2 and B3h = Off
03h and 02h must be a header

This gives me status of button presses from a HR12U remote for housecode L

The bit I am stuck on now is building a command sequence to turn on L2
I have got as far as L= 1011 and 2= 1110
Put those 2 together is 10111110, converted is 0BEh
Is this right?

I then substituted formating from the DOC but am missing a critical bit somewhere.
As previously mentioned, if I can get this first part done with simple codes and commands, I am sure I can put the rest together.

Short of that, plug my laptop which runs homeseer into the other serial port or make a split cable up and see what is going on, but I feel that is cheating!!!

This certainly has made my brain-ache, but am enjoying the challenge!!!

Appreciate everything so far.

BTW I am writing this program in Simpl Windows. A special Programming Interface for Crestron Processors which has its own compilers.
I will be using the time function called 'When' in the program instead.
I am yet to learn C, but hey, one thing at a time!!

Regards,

Paul

[GARYAUTOHO]

Cm11/12

YOUR ON THE RIGHT TRACK !
COULD YOU DROP BELOW HOUSE I (A-H)
FOR SPACE MY SOFTWARE ONLY SUPPORT'S (A-I)
I WROTE IT TO USE "COMMAND.COM" ONLY
IF YOU WANT TO TALK e:mail ME FOR MY NUMBER
"GARYAUTOHO@AOL.COM"