smarty
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I am trying to find a way to “mimic” the rs-232 serial output that would come from the Elk when it sends a Zone Change Update out the serial port (or ethernet port 2101) for an individual zone status change.
Background:
I use a program called “Xlobby” as my home automation front end GUI. Xlobby has a ElkM1 plugin that connects only to a serial COMM port. From within PowerHome, I use the Virtual Serial Port PH plugin (PH-VSP) to “bridge” between the Elk Ethernet module (IP address and port 2101) and the serial COMM port that the Xlobby Elk plugin connects to.
Here is the problem:
The Xlobby ElkM1 plugin only changes the zone status when it “sees” individual Zone Changes Update coming from the COMM port it is connected to. At plugin startup, it does NOT synchronize up with the actual zone status, (it starts them all “normal - OK“). The only way the zones (in Xlobby) become synchronized is over time, when they change state. The plugin is not smart enough to use the Zone Status Query (06zs004D) that returns the status of all 208 elk zones at once, that PowerHome likely uses when it initially connects to the Elk.
So PowerHome is connected in between the Elk controller and the Xlobby plugin attached to the COMM port of the PH-VSP plugin.
How can I “ mimic” an Elk Zone Change Update (0AZCZZZS00CC) using the configuration I described?
To my knowledge, the PH-VSP plugin does not pass any text strings (either to the network port 2101 nor to the COMM port that it connects together). Ideas?
Edited by smarty - May 18 2012 at 07:55
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