Currently I have a 1141 controller to control the house. I want to control another house with same house code. Can I use more than one 1141 controllers on a HomeSeer server?
Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
Multiple PLCBUS Controller 1141
Collapse
X
-
The 2 houses are very close from each other, and you want to use a power wire between the 2 houses ? I'm not sure this is allowed to run a power-wire between 2 houses as it could be dangerous....
If the 2 houses are very close, did you try to plug a PlcBus module in the second house, and see if you can control it from the PC in your first house ? This might work without havng to use a second PlcBus 1141 interface.Last edited by stipus; December 9, 2009, 06:59 PM.--
stipus
Comment
-
I also don't think that using power wire between the 2 houses is a good solution... So I think how about using a PLCBUS 1141 to control first house and another 1141 to control the second house. But I'm still confused whether Homeseer can handle two PLCBUS connectors. For example two PLCBUS connectors connected to the COM PORT 2 and COM PORT 4 as well.
The last way I can think of is using a separate PC and connected both PCs through the network. But it requires additional expenses.
Comment
-
Same here
I know what you mean, same here. Two houses next to eachother. They both have their own electric circuit which you don't want to connect directly.
I searched for a device that could transmit the PLCbus signal wireless, by infrared or whatever in both directions. I could not find anything.
I'm still wondering if it would be possible to hack a 3-Phase Coupler. This is a device that can transmit the PLCbus signal from one wire to the other without connecting them. Offcourse for a whole other purpouse.
But I have no idea how a 3-Phase Coupler works, so thats a longshot.
The only solution I can think of is using an other technique, X-10, zwave, for the other house. You can install different plugins for different techniques in homeer. For a little test I installed the X10 CM15AUSB plugin besides the already working BLCbus connector. They don't bite eachother.
I did not test it any further, I did not connect a CM15 X-10 hardware interface. ( I don't like the X-10 protocol)
I expect it would be the same for z-wave. But that's a more expenive solution.
It would be very nice if the PLCbus plugin would support multiple adapters. But I gues this would only be interesting for a very small group (2 so far )
Someone has to hack it, I'm a noob here. But willing to learn.
Comment
-
Originally posted by stipus View PostI hear you, but currently I don't know how to answer this problem.
Supporting several interfaces is not an easy task. This would take at least a full week of work on the plugin for only three users. I know this is not the answer you want, but currently I can't afford doing it
hs.Plugin("PLCBUS Connector").SendPlcBusCommand "D3", 2, 100, 0, false , COM2
So that I can control the next flat by HSTouch and running a script for control it ?
Thanks.
Comment
-
I find out a temp. solution.
Install two controller in server. Say COM 1 , COM 2
COM 1 controller control by Stipus Plug-in.
and COM 2 controller control by free open source command line utility.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/plcbus-cmd/
Comment
Comment