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tellstick core update: breaks previous functionality
« on: November 02, 2011, 10:09:19 pm »
Since October 25 Tellstick has released a new Tellstick core version to control the the Tellstick wireless usb device for lighting control of various wireless lighting systems. I tried to solve this by reinstalling the Tellstick device, but to no avail. Would probably have been better not to upgrade, but well, apt-get is so nice in offering to update everything at once...
JoakimL did you experience the same?

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Re: tellstick core update: breaks previous functionality
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2011, 10:19:16 pm »
If you do not want to upgrade everything, do what I usually do: apt-get install <name-of-packages-that-you-want-upgraded>

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Re: tellstick core update: breaks previous functionality
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2011, 10:22:03 pm »
Hi, I'm using the newest telldus-core on my 10.04 install and it works great. Are you sure your /etc/tellstick.conf wasn't overwritten when you upgraded?

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Re: tellstick core update: breaks previous functionality
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2011, 10:37:29 pm »
I didn't upgrade yet, I'll check and keep you posted.

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Re: tellstick core update: breaks previous functionality
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2011, 10:47:16 pm »
Hi Pointman87,
Yes I did check on the tellstick.conf. Still there, no changes to it either.
And yes, Posde, you're right, I am just paying the price for being lazy I suppose...
Joakim, I am very interested to learn your experience. Did not mention it probably, but I am running 8.10, not 10.04.

Thanks!

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Re: tellstick core update: breaks previous functionality
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2011, 10:50:34 am »
OK, bad news. My server disk started to behave rather strange, so I decided to re-install. I went for 10.04 and the plug'n play went well. However, not even the basic Tellstick commands work anymore. tdtool -l lists no devices, even though all are in my /etc/tellstick.conf file. I'm investigating.

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Re: tellstick core update: breaks previous functionality
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2011, 07:12:51 pm »
And now it works, even in LMCE 10.04. But - you need to downgrade if you've installed Tellstick 2.1 software. See the wiki for details.
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Tellstick

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Re: tellstick core update: breaks previous functionality
« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2011, 09:41:24 pm »
Hi Joakim. Im using telldus-core 2.1 and it works fine for me, thats odd.


apt-cache showpkg telldus-core
Package: telldus-core
Versions:
2.1.0-1 (/var/lib/apt/lists/download.telldus.com_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
 Description Language:
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/download.telldus.com_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages
                  MD5: d2e2b22b1f875c2073be98b92668b379


Reverse Depends:
  libtelldus-core2,telldus-core 2.1.0-1
Dependencies:
2.1.0-1 - libc6 (2 2.3.6-6~) libconfuse0 (2 2.5) libftdi1 (2 0.17) libgcc1 (2 1:4.1.1) libstdc++6 (2 4.2.1) libtelldus-core2 (2 2.1.0)
Provides:
2.1.0-1 -
Reverse Provides:



BR Daniel

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Re: tellstick core update: breaks previous functionality
« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2011, 11:09:51 pm »
joakimL, can you please work with posde to get the needed software into our repo, so that the entire process is plug and play?

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Re: tellstick core update: breaks previous functionality
« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2011, 08:45:17 am »
Sure, I'll do that.

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Re: tellstick core update: breaks previous functionality
« Reply #10 on: November 26, 2011, 11:40:38 pm »
Good news. Plug'n Play is now tested and verified on LMCE 10.04. Plug in the controller, answer Yes when you're asked if you want to use this Tellstick controller - and that's it.

Could someone on LMCE 8.10 please verify?

You need to update sqlCVS to get my updates.

Thanks posde and Thom for the support.



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Re: tellstick core update: breaks previous functionality
« Reply #11 on: November 27, 2011, 05:23:53 am »
Joakim,

thank YOU, for taking the time and taking care of your device template. Way too often, people come by, dump a template into sqlCVS and a few weeks later are no longer seen. And people can't use the DTs anymore, because something tiny has been changed upstream.

Thanks again.