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Installation issues / Re: Possibility to change GC100 properties after installation

« on: March 30, 2008, 05:55:01 pm »

FYI, config locking was still taking place with the manual setup, I've added some notes to the wiki about how to modify the config script to leave the config unlocked (in short, add parameter Y=0 to the http request).
There is also the http request to set the serial port speed from command line.
Sam

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Users / Re: Few basic questions about creating real-life scenarios

« on: March 30, 2008, 02:07:57 pm »

Hi jondecker76,

thanks. I am doing the first "svn update" right now
I have seen your posts regarding the new cm11 driver and I cannot wait !

I also want to have a look at the source of the zwave plugin to see why we loose devices when there is a gap in the sequence.

For the delay, I am not sure, but I believe you are right saying there will be some sort of locking. See this old post: http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=136.0. I would expect that you can still send commands to the device during the delay period (to be verified) but it seems you cannot "reset" the timer.

See you soon on IRC...

Sam

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Users / Re: Few basic questions about creating real-life scenarios

« on: March 30, 2008, 01:09:56 am »

Hi Bulek,

good catch for the identification of the mobile orbiter. I had a look and I don't see how to specify the phone/mobile orbiter. When the orbiter is detected, we can see in the DCErouter logs some interesting parameters:

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07      03/30/08 0:48:15.226            Received Message from 30 (Bluetooth Dongle / Salon TV) to -1001 (unknown / ), type 2 id 4 Event:Mobile orbiter detected, retry none, parameters: <0x841ccb90>
07      03/30/08 0:48:15.226              Parameter 5(Mac Address): 00:17:E5:04:xx:xx <0x841ccb90>
07      03/30/08 0:48:15.226              Parameter 6(Signal Strength): 0 <0x841ccb90>
07      03/30/08 0:48:15.226              Parameter 7(ID): Lembas <0x841ccb90>
but I do not see many useful options in the "criteria"  menu. Let's keep on searching...

For the delay, the idea is the following. Assume you have a sensor which detects presence in a room. You want a light to be turned on during 10 minutes when that sensor is triggered. What you need to do is create a event handler for sensor tripped, and define 3 actions:
1) turn the light on
2) send a delay of 600000 ms to dcerouter
3) turn off the light
This works fine for me. I agree, itś not intuitive

I haven't done so many scenarios, as much as I would love to because automation is still very unreliable: my home is half x10 half zwave.

X10 has never worked well if there are sensors around because of the bad checksum bug http://mantis.linuxmce.org/view.php?id=3845 (except for a nasty workaround with heyu that I suggested in an earlier post). I have seen with delight that this has been fixed but not in beta4, I am now in the process of installing a dev environment to try to compile the cm11a driver for a 32 bits arch. Fingers crossed.

Zwave is unreliable because it looses half of my devices at each router reload: [url][http://mantis.linuxmce.org/view.php?id=3614/url] which is unresolved. I have ordered a seluxis dongle hoping its driver will be better but I have doubts.

So you see, my setup remains experimental

But I disgress... some typical scenarios I have are:
- turn off all devices at late night, to be sure I haven left anything on
- react on Sunset event and add 1.5 hour. Then only, light outside lamps at 30% (power save...)
- turn lights on when I enter a room, but only during the day
- etc etc
So still quite basic

Hope this helps

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Users / Re: Z-Wave devices disappear at router reload

« on: March 29, 2008, 01:02:48 pm »

1audio, I see you have filed a Mantis for this. Posting here for others to monitor and/or comment.
http://mantis.linuxmce.org/view.php?id=3614

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Users / Re: Z-Wave devices disappear at router reload

« on: March 29, 2008, 10:03:34 am »

Hi 1 audio,

you are right, I have a lot of gaps in my ZWave device ID list.
However, it is not always strictly the higher ones that get lost, though it happens most often with these.

Very annoying as it makes the whole ZWave system unreliable. Do you know if it is linked to the Generic_Info_Plugin and thus applies to all controllers, or if it is a bug in the ZCU010 ? I hope the seluxis controller will work better

Sam

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Users / Re: Few basic questions about creating real-life scenarios

« on: March 29, 2008, 09:57:15 am »

Hi Bulek,

For BT device detection, go to menu Advanced -> Configuration -> Events. Click "create advanced event" and you will find ¨Bluetooth dongle -> Mobile orbiter detected"in the list. I have just tried it and had a message displayed on the orbiter when my phone was in range.

For the timer, you can do this. In the commands you enter to respond to the event, send a command to DCERouter. You will have there the option to send a "delay"command. Enter the value in milliseconds (I think). I have used this to have a light stay on for a few minutes when movement was detected in a room.

Sam

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Users / Re: Cannot use absolute scrolling with Gyration mouse

« on: March 28, 2008, 11:42:19 am »

Hi Dopey,

have look at http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/raid-lvm.php#failure if you use mdadm. For pure LVM, check http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/removeadisk.html

I have not tried the gyration on another MD, will try. To me this looks like the gyration is not transmitting continuously or, if it works for you, like the driver of the giration transmits the info in bursts instead of a continuous  flow, which appears like the button is pressed multiple times and not maintained pressed. I am not sure if there are options to the gyration driver, will investigate.

Sam

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Users / Re: Z-Wave devices disappear at router reload

« on: March 27, 2008, 10:14:19 am »

Hi PeteK,

thank you ! I was not aware of this page, very useful.

I have applied the patch and reloaded. Now indeed, the lights are not assigned a new number at each router reload. Much better than before.

I don't have the impression that it is completely fixed though, because I still get sometimes *some* of the lights who get a new device ID assigned. Weird ! Looking at which lights disappear the most often, it *could* be that they get temporarily out of radio range. But not all of them.

The controller I am using is a HomePro USB ZCU010, and I have ordered a seluxit controller to see if it works better.

Sam

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Users / Re: Cannot use absolute scrolling with Gyration mouse

« on: March 22, 2008, 06:11:45 pm »

Same here...

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dcerouter_64249:/tftpboot# grep 'ARGB GLX visuals' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 32-bit ARGB GLX visuals.


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Developers / Re: CM11A - adding new lights...

« on: March 21, 2008, 10:48:48 pm »

I'm running 32 bits so I guess I'll have to compile it. Not sure how yet but I will figure it out.

thanks Jondecker76 !!!

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Users / Re: Cannot use absolute scrolling with Gyration mouse

« on: March 21, 2008, 08:46:25 pm »

Still got the same issue with 0710beta4, nvidia driver 169.07

According to glxinfo, direct rendering is enabled.

/usr/pluto/bin# DISPLAY=:0 glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes

dopey, when you were seeing the problem, was glxinfo reporting direct rendering as enabled ?

Sam

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Users / Z-Wave devices disappear at router reload

« on: March 21, 2008, 08:29:54 pm »

Zwave was working fine in 0704. Since the upgrade to 0710b4, each time the router is reloaded, LMCE replaces existing z-wave appliances with new devices. This means a new device ID, and all the settings (name, room, icon, etc) gone.
Also, these don't appear in the floorplan wizard.

What could it be ?

thanks,
Sam

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Developers / Re: CM11A - adding new lights...

« on: March 21, 2008, 06:43:27 pm »

as I posted the initial mantis for the 0x5A lock with pluto team, I feel ashamed that I could not contribute more so far (except for the ugly heyu workaround). If that helps, I would be more than happy to do some testing of the latest developments. Where can I get a snapshot for 0710b4 ? Is it in SVN or is there a precompiled version around  ?

thanks,
Sam

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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: pleas add drivers fore my touchscreen

« on: March 04, 2008, 02:47:29 pm »

I'll go for a shy "me too" 

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Installation issues / Re: Dreambox VLC HTTP Stream

« on: February 07, 2008, 09:52:47 pm »

I got very excited when I saw this thread, until it went back to installing neutrino...

Indeed, I have an ITgate which is similar to a dreambox, runs enigma etc, but I don't think there is a neutrino image for it.

So if there is any progress with the modified template, that would work with enigma, please share :-)
I'll be happy to contribute too.

thanks