[mh] Door contacts with a weeder digital

[James L. <le...@gm...>]

I have a weeder digital IO board and have connected up 5 door contacts.  I
have searched and followed every example I can find, but most of them relate
to using the weeder to control relays.  The Wiki goes into detail about
using the weeder for outputs, but unfortunately just briefly mentions
inputs.  I have the following in my mh.private.ini

weeder_port=/dev/ttyUSB7
weeder_baudrate=9600

I have tried a couple of different serial ports.  I have a w800, Insteon_PLM
and a 1-wire interface working fine on my 8 port USB->Serial unit.

this is a snippet from my mh.log

Found managed X10_W800.pm module
MH will now require X10_W800.pm and call &X10_W800::startup
 - creating W800 port on /dev/ttyUSB1
Found managed serial port=Insteon_PLM
MH will now require Insteon_PLM.pm and call
Insteon_PLM::serial_startup(Insteon_PLM)
07/10/08 01:47:51 AM [Insteon_PLM] serial:/dev/ttyUSB0:19200
 - creating Insteon PLM port on /dev/ttyUSB0
 - creating weeder port on /dev/ttyUSB7
 - process id 8243 written to /opt/misterhouse/data/mh.pid
 - external command file (xcmd_file): ./../house_cmd.txt
 - HTML file     : ./../web/ia5/index.shtml
Done with setup

It looks to create the weeder port just fine.

I am not sure what else to do from here?  The only time I saw any response
in my log file was an A!, which indicates board reset or powerup.
I have the 5 inputs on A-E, with a common to GND.  I am using a 9vDC power
adapter to power the weeder with the jumper on EXT.

The documentation seems to support that the default for the port is input,
which should work for my magnetic door contacts.  I did try the following
bit of perl, which was adapted from the weeder_io.pl file I found in MH, but
I am not sure this is correct.  I also dont know if I need anything in my
items.mht file.


# digital items
$front_door_a       = new  Serial_Item('AAH', OPENED, 'weeder');        #A
$front_door_a      -> add             ('AAL', CLOSED, 'weeder');
$front_door_a      -> add             ('ASA', 'init', 'weeder');
$front_door_a      -> add             ('ARA', 'read', 'weeder');

$door_b             = new  Serial_Item('ABH', OPENED, 'weeder');        #B
$door_b            -> add             ('ABL', CLOSED, 'weeder');
$door_b            -> add             ('ASB', 'init', 'weeder');
$door_b            -> add             ('ARB', 'read', 'weeder');

$door_c             = new  Serial_Item('ACH', OPENED, 'weeder');        #C
$door_c            -> add             ('ACL', CLOSED, 'weeder');
$door_c            -> add             ('ASC', 'init', 'weeder');
$door_c            -> add             ('ARC', 'read', 'weeder');

$door_d             = new  Serial_Item('ADH', OPENED, 'weeder');        #D
$door_d            -> add             ('ADL', CLOSED, 'weeder');
$door_d            -> add             ('ASD', 'init', 'weeder');
$door_d            -> add             ('ARD', 'read', 'weeder');

$door_e             = new  Serial_Item('AEH', OPENED, 'weeder');        #E
$door_e            -> add             ('AEL', CLOSED, 'weeder');
$door_e            -> add             ('ASE', 'init', 'weeder');
$door_e            -> add             ('ARE', 'read', 'weeder');


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

James