[mh] Greetings, and Issues with the CM11A

[Zen T. <zt...@gm...>]

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Hey guys, first post to the list, although I will admit to lurking for quit=
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awhile.
I've been following Misterhouse for a couple years, and finally had the=20
chance to get going with it after my recent move in March.

I want to say that what you guys are doing is amazing. The code,=20
documentation, and this list have all been incredibly helpful to me in=20
getting this stuff going.

So far I've gotten everything I've played with working no problem (with one=
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exception, see below). It's great how ready to run out of the box=20
MisterHouse is. You guys deserve a medal or something :)

Anyways, the one issue I've had is with my CM11A (big surprise, judging fro=
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the number of issues on this list about it, eh?)
The problem I'm having in a nutshell is this: MH can see x10 stuff=20
happening, but can't seem to do any x10'ing (that a verb? is now, I suppose=
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itself.

More detail:

I set the device in mh.private.ini:

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cm11_port=3DCOM1
...

MH detects the device and sets up an object

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- creating cm11 object on port COM1
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..But when I try to toggle a light (for example):

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X10: interface=3Dcm11a isfunc=3D0 save_unit=3DXA8 data=3DXA8

Error, X10 interface not found: interface=3Dcm11a, data=3DXA8
X10: interface=3Dcm11a isfunc=3D1 save_unit=3DXA8 data=3DXAK

Error, X10 interface not found: interface=3Dcm11a, data=3DXAK
...

The CM11A works fine with the activehome software.

MisterHouse reads any incoming X10 commands from the CM11A just fine (ie:=
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using an RF remote, or thinline switch, maxicontroller, etc) and updates th=
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state of an item correctly, so I know it's reading and accessing the serial=
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port just fine.

a link to the test_x10 output is pasted to the end of this email (didn't=20
want to spam the list with it, as it's long).

For the record, I have a reasonable amount of perl experience. I'm=20
comfortable mucking around with source.
I am running MH on a WinXP system (although I had the same problem on a=20
different box running Windows Server 2003 - Tried both to make sure it=20
wasn't a serial port issue).

I've narrowed my problem down to three possibilities;
1) My CM11A is bad (I hope not, it's less than 2 months old)
2) I have a configuration or source problem somewhere that I'm missing
..or
3) I have absolutely no idea what the heck I'm doing and should probably=20
sell my computer and go work on a farm instead. :)

Any ideas, please let me know (on the list or off). I've done quite a bit o=
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searching this list and google. I found one other person who described a=20
similar problem, but a solution was never posted to the list (that I was=20
able to find, anyways).

If any more information is needed, just ask, I'm generally pretty quick wit=
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the replies during work hours.
Thanks again for all the help so far (the comments in the code,=20
documentation, and this list have gotten me everything else I wanted so far=
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set up.. including multiple Audrey's serving music and CID info around the=
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house, which is just fun). Any help anyone could offer to help me out with=
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this (even if it's just a link I missed to an old message my searching=20
hasn't turned up) would be very appreciated.

-Zen Tormey

[Here is the output of 'test_x10 CM11A com1 A 1 > debugme.txt']
http://fd.bananafunk.com/mh/debugme.txt