Napco Gemini Plugin USB-Serial on HT-SEL

[carp3d]

Having a problem getting the Napco Panel to connect.
Currently using the USB-Serial to successfully connect a Z-Troller. In that interface setup there is a drop down with choices


However in the NAPCO GEMINI plugin setup there's only a BLANK field.

I have tried

• /dev/ttyUSB1
• ttyUSB1
• COM1
• 1

No joy so far....

Can anyone help with the connection here? How do i connect a Napco panel to the HomeTroller-SEL?

Thanks in advance!

Chris

Current Date/Time: 10/9/2017 11:01:26 AM
HomeSeer Version: HS3 Standard Edition 3.0.0.318
Linux version: Linux hometrollerSEL 3.16.0-031600-generic #201408031935 SMP Sun Aug 3 23:56:17 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux System Uptime: 0 Days 17 Hours 59 Minutes 27 Seconds
IP Address: 192.168.1.225
Number of Devices: 27
Number of Events: 0
Available Threads: 199
License: Registered
License: 98051
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Location: (Latitude) 42.22 (Longitude) 71.03

Enabled Plug-Ins
3.0.0.68: HSTouch Server
3.0.2.0: Napco Gemini
3.0.1.130: Z-Wave

[nfrobertson]

On the Napco Gemini config page is a text box for setting the COM Port. That is used literally in code to open the System.IO.Ports.SerialPort class as below:

myPort = New SerialPort(myConfig.COMPort, 9600, Parity.Even, 8, StopBits.One)

In the Linux support sticky thread I mentioned I'm using an Oracle VM Virtualbox that maps a PC USB serial port to /dev/ttyUSB0 I also took a quick look over at Mark Sander's Insteon support forum as I know he works directly with Linux serial ports for that interface. Here is an example post where he also mentions /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/ttyUSB1 I would expect the value you put in the config page for the Napco Plugin here to be similar. Unfortunately I don't have a Hometroller-SEL so I don't have experience with how it might map the USB serial port to a device but per your example, it seems /dev/ttyUSB0 works with the ZWave plugin? I would then expect that to work with the Napco Gemini plugin assuming you have disabled the ZWave plugin as they both can't open the device at the same time.

Nathan

[carp3d]

Success!

Thank you for your reply

I was successfully able to populate the field with /dev/ttyUSB1 and get the panel connected.

I thought i had tried that exact value the other day. This time it worked.

Thanks again!

[nfrobertson]

That's great news. Thanks for the reply back confirming this as I'm sure it will help others too.

Nathan