HA controllers ruin my day.
Well I'm back to work on my device drivers and software for Misterhouse. I've updated the drivers to support Linux 2.6.15 or better. They're not posted yet as I have a packaging problem (I need to support 2.4, 2.6 less then .15 and 2.6 greater than/equal to .15). There were a few changes to the handling of module parameters that needed to be corrected. I've also spent a little time working on the cm15d software. I can now correctly set the clock and send simple X10 commands. I hope to have it correctly receive simple X10 commands also then it should be ready to use with the NSLU2 I have.
My serial Insteon PLC is still messed up. I know what happened, I sent commands to it too fast (it can only handle 3 bytes at a time). I'll work on my code and figure out how to rewrite the core app (that's very important). Then I'll get back to writing my MH code. In the mean time I'll be using the USB PLC with MH to keep going. This is very annoying. Also Bob Paauwe has updated his ilinks to v 0.02. I have had a chance to look at it but I hope to some time this week.
And now for a little rant! I was poking around and found out that X10 has update their forums (that's good). Imagine my surprise when I found a forum for "Linux & Open Source and the X10 Home" (sorry I'm not going to provide a link to it). Wow great finally we're going to get some support! Well no we're not! To this day X10 has not shared the CM15A's communication protocol with the community (it's been about 10 months). So even though I am working on the CM15A software (because I bought one on the promise of the documentation) I'm not going to post any relevant information to the X10 forum. If X10 can't support us (the Open Source community) then why should we support them. Vote with your cash, purchase Insteon, UPB or Z-Wave (there's an Open Source driver in the kernel). Anything but X10!
posted by Neil Cherry @ 12:36 PM
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Hey good luck on the progress Neil with the MH module. I'll be so glad when I can get rid of the CM11A in my system. I think there are bunch of us who are standing behind you in the open source HA community!
I'm also looking forward to using Insteon (not just X10). I'm currently working on getting my drivers in the Kernel (why not?).
I'd love to find out how many people are interested in this stuff. I'd still post the information if I were the only one but it's nice to know. I guess I'll find out when the book is published. :-)
Why you're not going to provide a link to that forum?
I now have a section under the links (to the bottom right of this web page) to Wiley's page about the book and the link to the Forum. Thanks for reminding me I had forgotten that I was to add it here. I'll tweak the css later to get it to properly line up.
I sort of forgot to mention that I managed to get my HA up and running again. A filtered power strip behind (yes behind) a FilterLinc (not the FilterLinc's fault). Pull it out and eveything is working again! Now back to doing some HA!
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