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[QUOTE=dzee;1172815]Have you noticed the CADDX: Send Keypad Message option in the THEN pull-down? QUOTE]
I did notice that and can get it to work, I have a single keypad, so I use address 192, and if you set the time to like 30, it will display that message on the keypad for 30 seconds. But, it is different from the old plugin, this one just displays this one message and locks the display with that on the screen for the duration of the time set.
The old command worked like you described where it alternates between the time and system status messages.HS Install Date: Feb. 16, 2007
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Originally posted by Rien du Pre View PostI will look into this...
I did notice one other minor nit while testing this weekend. When you click the chime toggle button, the status always reads "Chime on" on the Partition 1 Chime Control. Might it be because there is no status info that indicates on vs off at the interface you're working with? If you can determine on vs off, it would be nice for the status to update. If I can really push my luck, it would be nice to have an ON vs OFF command, too. I set the door chime on as part of the sleep routine so if any of our doors or windows open in the middle of the night, we hear the chime, then turn it off again in the morning so we don't have to hear it dinging all day when we're active.
Thanks again.
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Originally posted by dzee View PostRein, let me say how much I appreciate your work on this plugin. I was evaluating HS3 just days before you mentioned you were going to update the plugin, and once you posted it and I got it working, it was the deciding factor in my moving forward with HS3. Like others have already said, if you decide to sell this plugin, I would buy it.
I did notice one other minor nit while testing this weekend. When you click the chime toggle button, the status always reads "Chime on" on the Partition 1 Chime Control. Might it be because there is no status info that indicates on vs off at the interface you're working with? If you can determine on vs off, it would be nice for the status to update. If I can really push my luck, it would be nice to have an ON vs OFF command, too. I set the door chime on as part of the sleep routine so if any of our doors or windows open in the middle of the night, we hear the chime, then turn it off again in the morning so we don't have to hear it dinging all day when we're active.
Thanks again.
Chime on and off is toggle based in the Caddx API, so that why it is implemented like this. However you can check the value of the HS Chime device (0 = Off and 100 = On) and toggle depending on the status. I tested this behavior just now and this works in my setup.Regards,
Rien du Pre
The Netherlands
Using:
Homeseer PRO latest HS4 BETA on a Raspberry
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RFXCOM, mcsMQTT, Z-Wave
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Originally posted by mikemendoza View Postdzee, I was having the same pincode is incorrect problem as you. I changed some of the settings in my 594 board and it worked. Sorry, I don't remember what settings. I think I went in there and turned everything on that I could.
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Rien,
Now that I have my Pincode verified, I noticed that ever since the newer version of the plugin was released the partition 1 status that used to show "Faulted" or "Ready" no longer appears. I just completely uninstalled CADDX, removed all the devices from the system, restarted, reinstalled, and went through the discovery process for zones and partitions and have the same problem. The only partition-level devices I see are the last user, the parition control, and the chime toggle.
Did the Partition 1 Status go away intentionally? I had used it to tell when all zones were ready rather than having to check each one individually.Last edited by dzee; April 22, 2015, 09:46 PM.
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Originally posted by dzee View PostRien,
Did the Partition 1 Status go away intentionally? I had used it to tell when all zones were ready rather than having to check each one individually.
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Originally posted by dzee View PostI proceeded going through Location 2 and Location 3 and it seems one of the bits in Location 3 Segment 3 allowed the Plug-in to verify the pincode.
Turned on Location 3, Segment 3, Bit 3 (was previously off, and had the error)
Now Location 3, Segment 3 looks like this:
_ _ 3 _ 5 6 7 8
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Originally posted by dzee View PostRien (or anyone), Is there a way to detect the "Faulted" or "Ready" status of a partition from a script?Regards,
Rien du Pre
The Netherlands
Using:
Homeseer PRO latest HS4 BETA on a Raspberry
Plugin's:
RFXCOM, mcsMQTT, Z-Wave
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Originally posted by Rien du Pre View PostI will add scripting capabilities in the next release. I had never done that before in one of my plugins, but now I Know how to do it I only need to find some time
Code:Dim OpenTime As TimeSpan = hs.TimerValue("DoorsWindowsOpen") 'DoorsWindowsOpen timer starts when partition faulted event occurs in event builder, and is cleared when Partition goes to Ready status Dim isFaulted As Boolean = (OpenTime.TotalSeconds > 0) ' Sets 'isFaulted' = true when DoorsWindowsOpen timer is > 0 seconds
Last edited by dzee; May 3, 2015, 06:18 PM.
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Thanks for the great plugin!
I was thinking of adding the caddx relay expansion module for HS control instead of getting an ADIO-100. Will this plugin allow control of these expansion boards?
Here is a link to the manual for the board.
http://www.loks.lv/PDF/GE/EN/NX-507E_508E.pdf-Tim
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The new house has a NX-8V2 that I would like to connect into HS3 and came across your new script.
My question is this only connects via RS-232, right?
Ideally I'd like to connect via ethernet using the NX-590E board.
If that isn't an option then it looks like I would need the NX-584e expander with a rs-232 to ethernet converter such as Global Cache IP2SL-P Ethernet to Serial Converter (PoE). This is a more expensive and complex option but it seems the choices are limited.
Panel and HS are on different floors of the house. Running serial cable isn't practical.
General thoughts?
Thx,
Randy
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Originally posted by gmab View PostThe new house has a NX-8V2 that I would like to connect into HS3 and came across your new script.
My question is this only connects via RS-232, right?
Ideally I'd like to connect via ethernet using the NX-590E board.
If that isn't an option then it looks like I would need the NX-584e expander with a rs-232 to ethernet converter such as Global Cache IP2SL-P Ethernet to Serial Converter (PoE). This is a more expensive and complex option but it seems the choices are limited.
Panel and HS are on different floors of the house. Running serial cable isn't practical.
General thoughts?
Thx,
Randy
On the other hand, if the CADDX were the serial device, and you ran the virtual COM port software available for the IP2SL device on the HS host, it would likely work, but that means changing out the CADDX board for Serial. If you go that far, the CAT5 you already have run could be used as a serial cable to avoid the RS232/Serial adapters entirely. There are ready-to-use Serial to CAT5 adapters available that simply make a physical serial connection through the existing CAT5 copper, without any protocol changes. The CAT5 should handle serial just fine for well over 100' if not upwards of 200'.
Update: I was just looking at the doc for the NX-590E board (http://www.alarmhow.net/manuals/UTC/...n%20Manual.pdf) and it appears that board may also have RS232 already on it in addition to the network connection.
On a separate posting, I found someone talking about the difficulty of decoding the encryption used on the ethernet data. That makes sense because if using serial the communication is point-to-point and probably doesn't need encryption, but if transmitted as data packets on an ethernet network, they could be captured by a spy device simply plugged into the network, and data such as pin-code might be shown in plain-text if not encrypted.Last edited by dzee; May 17, 2015, 10:47 AM.
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