Re: [mh] HAI Omnistat 2

[Joel D. <jr...@io...>]

Karl-

What type of serial port are you using to communicate with the Omnistat?
As I recall the Omnistat serial i/f gets it power from one of the host
port status lines, and some serial ports cheat and don't drive their
status lines to the +/-12 or so volts in the rs-232 spec.  I used to use
a Moxa pci 8 port serial board with my rc-80 and it worked fine.  Now
I'm using a ByteRunner usb 8 port serial adapter and it too works ok.
For starters you might try a different serial port if you can.

Joel
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Joel Davidson
Austin, TX


On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, it would appear that Karl Suchy wrote:

> Mickey,
>
> Thanks for sending that out.  I will work that in once I get the OmniStat
> Communicating with the computer.  Do you recall having to do anything
> special with the OmniStat 2 to get it to talk?  My version does not have a
> communication jumper on the pcb, instead there was a wire jumper between the
> "N/C" and "black" pins as labeled on the pcb.  In settings it is set up for
> serial at 300 baud.  I have tried using Realterm to send commands to the
> Stat with no response back.
>
> Thanks
> Karl
>
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Mickey Argo <mh...@ar...> wrote:
>
>>  I didn't exactly code this for wide distribution...there are complications
>> with my employer and areas they might be working on in the near future.  If
>> you want to clean this up for inclusion into the trunk code, please feel
>> free and take the credit!  Compare the attached Omnistat.pm with the trunk
>> version.  omnistat2.pl is in my code directory.  I have the following in
>> my private ini:
>>
>> Omnistat_serial_port=COM1
>> Omnistat_24hr=1
>> # disable internal program
>> #Omnistat_non_program=[0,1]
>> Omnistat_no_stat_log=3
>> Omnistat_stat_log=$config_parms{data_dir}/omnistatlog.txt
>> omnistat_allowed_errors = 999999999999
>> hvac_allowed_errors = 999999999999
>> show_all_errors = yes
>>
>>
>> Mickey Argo wrote:
>>
>> Karl,
>>
>> I have this working on my setup...I'll try to send out the code changes
>> later today.  I did add some new stuff, like changing the background color
>> based on the outside air temperature.
>>
>> Mickey Argo
>>
>> On 12/3/10 12:11 PM, Karl Suchy wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the feed back.  The Omnistat is in the correct communication
>> mode.  I think I will start messing around with Omnistat.pm and trying to
>> send simple get and set commands and see what I get back.
>>
>> Karl
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Marc MERLIN <ma...@me...> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 09:45:18AM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 12:35:27PM -0500, Karl Suchy wrote:
>>>>> I am trying to get a single Omnistat 2 functioning with MisterHouse.
>>>  Any
>>>>> help will be greatly appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> When opening omnistat_setup_web.pl I get the following error message
>>> "http
>>>>> error in http eval of omnistat_setup_web.pl: 12/03/10 11:40:36 AM:
>>>>> Omnistat[1]->send_cmd did not get ack reply to command 01 20 3b 0e 6a
>>> () at
>>>>> /opt/misterhouse/mh/bin/../lib/Omnistat.pm line 554, line 216."
>>>
>>>  I should add that '()' shows that no reply at all was received from the
>>> omnistat, so you may indeed have a basic communication problem.
>>>
>>> Marc
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>>>
>>>
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