Re: [mh] xPL and device_monitor prob

[Timothy S. <spa...@ic...>]

Hi Ron,

Can you share where you purchased all of your sensors and the rfxcom device? 
are you using the 310mhz or 433mhz (or both receivers).

Thanks
Tim
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Klinkien" <ro...@cy...>
To: "The main list for the MisterHouse home automation program" 
<mis...@li...>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [mh] xPL and device_monitor prob


Gregg Liming wrote:
> Quoting Ron Klinkien (10/5/07 10:25 AM):
>
>
>> I changed it just now, but it seems that the state_monitor parsing has
>> the same bug:
>>
>> otherwise $$o{state_monitor} is filled with: 'sensor.basic :' only
>>
>> So this gives a better result:
>> -- this code:
>> $rfxpow_item = new xPL_Item('bnz-rfxcom.server');
>> $$rfxpow_item{state_monitor} = 'sensor.basic:current'; # noloop
>> $rfxpow_item->device_monitor('device=rfxmeter.00f0'); # noloop
>>
>
> [...snip...]
>
>
>> The rfxpower device changed value to: 3403.18
>> -----
>> Nice result!
>>
>> I let the proper fixing up to you, nice he? ;-)
>>
>
> Thanks for the catch on state_monitor as well.  I've revised the
> xAP_Items.pm so that it properly strips all space and allows either a
> equals sign or colon as a delimitter (as forcing inconsistencies isn't
> good either).  So, I am able to get the following to work:
>
> $$xpl_test_item{state_monitor} = 'sensor.basic= current'; # noloop
> $xpl_test_item->device_monitor('device =outside.humid1'); # noloop
>
>
> The revisions have been committed to the stable branch as this is a bug
> fix; that means you'll have to stick w/ your mods for the time being
> until Matt sync's the branch mods to the trunk.
>
> BTW: What sensors/devices are you using w/ your rfxcom?  Do you like
> them and/or are they improvements over past devices?
>
> Gregg
>
Ok thanks!

I use my RFXcom device to read a bunch of ds90 Marmitek door/windows
sensors, a Marmitek smoke detector, 6 Oregon thgr228 sensors (hum/temp)
an Oregon UV sensor, a few MS13's and a RFXMeter with a Power Module.
Gathering values from them with Beanz's xpl-perl hub and code.
www.xpl-perl.co.uk

I have the older RFXCom Usb device, there is a new lan/wlan version
released. But I'm happy with the usb version, works ok on Linux.
I have no experiance with the quirks you are reffering to.

One note, the RFXcom device is rather sensitive. With the supplied
antenna you see a lot more sensors than your own! ;-)

I'm using (part of) MH as rules engine and web server, just now I was
testing displaying the sensor values with some cgi::ajax code.
Works fine.

Regards,
Ron.


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