HouseBot

In doing a quick bit of research, I do see others complaining about USB->serial converters not working well with the CM11. However, if you were able to get home pro working through the converter, it seems like it should be possible somehow. There are a few flow control parameters that we could play ...

Roel, For the "Unable to start IPC server", check to make sure you don't have multiple external control devices that are sharing the same port number. It's probably something like that, but it points to something trying to open a socket on a port that is already in use. For the serial issu...

Version 1.14 of the Android Software Remote has been released to the Google Play Store.

This version is required for compatibility with the new HouseBot release (3.42)

Version 3.42 is a minor release with the following changes: New: Voice Service (Alexa) setup dialog for configuring Devices and Properties that respond to external voice services. New: Software Remote client action for showing and hiding wait cursor. (*) New: Added duplicate Device feature. New: Dyn...

...What are the downsides to making that larger? None really, other than the plugin requiring a little more memory to run. I wrote that plugin for myself a long time ago for a specific purpose that was only dealing with very small data control packets. I've attached a new plugin that you can unzip ...

The buffer size is 128 bytes. So longer strings will get broken into multiple PV changes. I can increase that if you have longer data streams that are causing a problem (your examples weren't too long). I see nowhere in the code where the CRLF gets stripped, but I haven't tested it. And it doesn't a...

There's no timeout setting for the Device. I would think they would send the CR/LF along with the rest of the data (not flush the data and then later flush the CR/LF). I don't know if it will help diagnose the issue, but you can enable tracing for the Device. That might show what is happening to the...

Steve Horn wrote:Do you want to see the trace log file created so far?

You can send it along and I'll see if I can determine the issue. Sometimes the 'error' messages aren't really errors, they are just recorded to the trace log because they are out of the ordinary and *could* cause other issues.

Steve, The trace shows ON and OFF Insteon commands being sent from the PIR device [41.64.62], and the notifications being sent to the HouseBot Device. So that's good. I'm not sure why your HouseBot Power State Property isn't reflecting it. It looks like the data stream got a little confused towards ...

Try setting up a Hardware Interface trace on the PLM.

I know the OS will kill the widgets if it needs memory. When the widget goes, it also kills that HouseBot remote app. Let me know if that fixes the issue.

I'd try and get it setup with whatever app they are suggesting first. You might be able to get more info about how the sensor works from the app and can verify that it is working the way you want. It might also be helpful to run an interface trace to see if there's any good info there that might hel...

Couple of questions.
1) About how long until you see the issue?
2) Are you running any widgets?

Steve, There are several different ways to interrogate the com ports, so it's very possible that the method I chose might not cover every single platform. I recall sending you (or maybe someone else) a COM port test program that interrogated the system in multiple ways. If you have that, can you run...

It's probably caused by a connectivity issue between the my HouseBot server and your local HB instance. When is says you are "Connected" in my HouseBot, it really means that it never explicitly received a disconnect from HouseBot. If you kill HouseBot, or if a socket connection is broken (...