BT Connector 2.48.2.2 performance issues

[Fischi]

Thanks Emotion,
but I didn't understand what you mean.
Could you give me more details ?

Reg. Fischi

[Emotion]

It looks like the ds variable isn't being correctly defined by the For command above or that you've used the ds variable again perhaps outside of the For Next loop. Check what you've cut and pasted matches the code.

[Fischi]

Hi Emotion,

After running your script to change the bluetooth poll delay for home/away

I get the message:

Script compile error: Der Name "ds" wurde nicht deklariert.on line 20

Where is the issue ?

Regards, Fischi

[Blinder]

Thanks for the scripts

Looks like I'll be messing around with my first scripts.

I still need to review these and figure out what Emotion's scripts are doing, it's obviouls that it's doing more than the obvious!

There is no way I could have even started without some help.

Thanks again!

[Emotion]

Hi Blinder,

I have several iPhones registered of all different versions with the Bluetooth connector, they work OK with "ConnectService". I've found you must always pair your phone up with the PC with HomeSeer not running - works much faster. Then you must do the Bluetooth Connector stuff within HomeSeer fairly soon afterwards before the Bluetooth stack gets too busy - again, this just saves time.

Here is a cut&paste of the Bluetooth routine taken from the Emotion application for HS which reconfigures the PollDelay and LostConfirm values to whatever you pass into the Sub.

The important line is section = hs.GetINISection(SectionName, "hspi_bt.ini") which allows you to change the settings in hspi_bt.ini in the HomeSeer directory somewhere (I think in C:\Program Files\HomeSeer HS2\Config). Then you need to do a hs.Plugin("BT Connector").scanner.Devices(SectionName).ReloadConfig() to commit those changes and make them active without having to restart HomeSeer.

Private Sub ConfigureBluetooth(ByVal PollDelay, ByVal LostConfirm, ByVal hcuc)
Dim BtDevice As String
Dim SectionName, items
Dim section As String = ""
Dim FoundSection As Boolean
BtDevice = hcuc.ToLower
For ds = 0 To MaxFriends
SectionName = "Device" & ds.ToString
Try
section = hs.GetINISection(SectionName, "hspi_bt.ini")
Catch : End Try
If section = "" Then
FoundSection = False
Exit For
End If
items = Split(section, Chr(0))
For I = 0 To UBound(items)
If Strings.Left(items(I), 9) = "HsDevice=" Then
If LCase(Mid(items(I), 10)) = BtDevice Then
FoundSection = True
Exit For
End If
End If
Next
If FoundSection = True Then 'Start configuring
Try
hs.SaveINISetting(SectionName, "PollDelay", PollDelay, "hspi_bt.ini")
hs.SaveINISetting(SectionName, "LostConfirm", LostConfirm, "hspi_bt.ini")
hs.Plugin("BT Connector").scanner.Devices(SectionName).ReloadConfig()
Catch ex As Exception
Try
If My.Settings.Debug Then hs.WriteLogEx(My.Settings.ComputerSpoken, "Sub ConfigureBluetooth failed on hs.Plugin")
Catch
End Try
End Try
Exit For
End If
Next
End Sub

[mterry63]

Here's another example script of how to change the polling interval.

http://board.homeseer.com/showpost.p...2&postcount=57

I agree it would be great if this were built in to the plugin.

[mterry63]

Changing the polling times has been posted in the forum before. Here's my BTProcessing.vb script. Call in an event with the paramer "ClientID|Interval". Note, the client ID can change if you add/modify clients.

''' <summary>
        ''' Modify bluetooth client polling interval
        ''' </summary>
        ''' <param name="Params">Client|Interval where Client is the bluetooth client device name as 
        ''' string and Interval is the time interval in seconds to poll</param>
        ''' <remarks>This function changes the polling interval for a client. It can be used
        ''' to make the polling interval longer when a client is detected or home and shorter
        ''' once the client is not detected or away. This allows the system to detect the client
        ''' faster on return without draining the battery while home.</remarks>
        Public Sub ChangePolling(ByVal Params As String)

            Dim Client As String
            Dim Interval As String
            Dim arrParm() As String

            arrParm = Split(Params, "|", -1, 1)
            Client = arrParm(0)
            Interval = arrParm(1)

            ' Save the new PollDelay value
            hs.SaveINISetting(Client, "PollDelay", Interval, "hspi_bt.ini")
            ' Force the plugin to update the polling interval
            hs.Plugin("BT Connector").scanner.Devices(Client).ReloadConfig()
        End Sub 

[Blinder]

It seems like Emotion has

That's a damm fine idea to change the polling if you are out of the house. Has anyone worked out how to do it?

He has done it thru scripting. He also seems to be the only one who has figured out how to make Iphones work (I don't have one, so no biggie for me)

[darren-mc]

That's a damm fine idea to change the polling if you are out of the house. Has anyone worked out how to do it?

[Blinder]

Better someone smart, than me!

I'd like to see an "away" poll time and a "home" pole time, but you might want to start fast polling as soon as the first pole is missed. I.E. if you have lost confirm set to >1 then "fast pole" mode is enabled. Just a thought.

While I have had the plugin for a long time, it never liked any of my phones after I got rid of my original "dumb it's just a phone" phone. It does seem to like my Evo, so I'm totally jazzed that I might finally be able to use the connector again.

With the fast poll, I might be able to achieve the ultimate goal of automatically un-locking the front door when someone arrives home. Yes, it could be done with rf-ID in a car, but IMHO, BT would be better since we share cars but don't share phones and I'd like to know who is acutally "home".

Also, I'm still working (slowly) on screens for HSTouch so not having to do scripting for this would be great. One day, I'd like to learn to use scripts, but I'm not there yet.

Thanks for the consideration.

Robert

[Chak]

Also wondering how to setup poll delay of 180 seconds when phone in range.

With the default settings(10seconds) was my iphone4 battery empty in 8 hours and my Imac was lossing keyboard connection every few minutes.

I have set the delay to 180 secondes and the Iphone is not detected anymore.

[stipus]

That's a good idea !

[Blinder]

That's exactly how an occupancy sensor should work!

Hi Stipus, thanks for the quidk reply.

OK, let me explain what I'm doing and perhaps you can guide me in the best way of doing it. What I've got at the moment has functionally worked very well over the last 3 months, it's just the new registration process that gets me - although from your description above I now understand about the heavy loading I'm putting on the Bloetools library.

I have 10 mobile cell phones configured with a Poll Delay of 5 whilst in "Device Away" status for quick detection. As soon as one of them becomes "Device Detected" I programatically change the Poll Delay to 180 for that device to save phone power and I'm not too bothered about when they leave (sort of doorbell announce by name thing).

I'm currently using DiscoverService, so all my devices are already paired. Can you think of a way I can have an early detection of a device without loading the BT stack to the extent that I have to restart HomeSeer to pair a new device?

Emotion,

I purchased this plug-in years ago and what you are doing is EXACTLY what the default behavior should be. It should poll quickly when away and then very slowly when home.

Can you post how you do that? I need to start getting into scripting..

Thanks!

Stipus,

There hasn't been much work done on the plug in, how about adding this feature?

[stipus]

The lib from btframeworks.com looks interesting.

The good thing is it supports all BT stacks (MS, Widcomm, Toshiba and Bluesoleil), and there are many updates.

The problem is the cost.... $350 for only 6 months... I'm not sure I can get the money back from plugin sales....

The support forum is also full of problem reports, bugs with some stacks, memory leaks, unexpected crashes... etc.
http://forum.btframework.com/index.php?board=55.0

And from what I read, there is no function to get the RSSI level yet. The current plugin uses this to triangulate BT device position.

[Emotion]

Oh, OK - sorry to hear that. I guess you had to sell quite a few pluggins to break even for the cost of this. I was going to suggest the library from btframework.com which was last updated 2 weeks ago, but the cost of a commercial license is even worse!

I feel guilty complaining now