Thermostat Device

kilowatt · Post by **kilowatt** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 12:25 pm

Eric,

I have a SMARTHOME TempLinc which is supposed to be compatable with the RCS TX15-B control protocol. I would love to test it with your plugin once you have it working. I would be willing to help with testing and debug. It has been a long time since I did much coding so I'm not sure I could help there. I would still be interested in seeing the code to see how one implements a device plugin like this. Maybe I'll brush off my software skills and attempt to code a plugin.

Mark

Info on TempLink can be found here:

http://www.smarthome.com/1625.html

http://www.smarthome.com/manuals/1625_web.pdf

ericvic · Post by **ericvic** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 12:33 pm

I will keep the board informed on the progress. Didn't get a chance to work on it last night because something came up at the last minute. I hope to get some time this evening to start adding the sending of the X-10 commands and if I have time start receiving X-10 and setting the properties.

Eric

ericvic · Post by **ericvic** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 10:54 pm

Scott,

What should the return value from SubscriptionNotification be? I know if is a BOOL but when should it be true and when false?

Thanks,

Eric

Post by **ScottBot** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 11:07 pm

Return TRUE if you want to, else return FALSE.

It really doesn't matter. Everything else in the call stack is void. I guess I did that for future needs. Yea, that was probably it.

ericvic · Post by **ericvic** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 11:10 pm

Since I'm normally pretty positive I'll return TRUE

But I may return FALSE on errors just in case that changes in the future.

ericvic · Post by **ericvic** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 11:19 pm

Scott,

This should be an easy one but I didn't completely understand the example. How do I change the value of a property. I don't see a SetPropertyValue() on CProperty.

Eric

Post by **ScottBot** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 11:30 pm

If you look at the Beep Device, you can see an example.

The method of changing a value may seem a bit odd, since it takes several steps. It gives you a bit more flexibility by having the property values as discrete objects, so you can do a bit more with them.

To change the value, you first have to create a new value to change it to. Generally you call CreatePropertyValue() on the Property that you are wanting to change.

You can then call either ChangeRequestCompleted() or ChangeRequestFailed() on the new property. Since you created the value yourself in the plugin, you probably want to call ChangeRequestCompleted().

Lastly, delete the object.

Goes like this.

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  // Change the value to "No".
  CPropertyValue* pNoValue = m_pYesOrNo->CreatePropertyValue( "No" );
  if (pNoValue)
  {
    pNoValue->ChangeRequestCompleted();
    delete pNoValue;
  }

ericvic · Post by **ericvic** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:37 pm

Scott,

See if I'm seeing this correct. It seems that when preset dims come in they are 1 based (1-32) but when you send a preset dim they are 0 based (0-31). Is that correct and if so why?

Thanks,

Eric

Post by **ScottBot** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 8:31 am

Eric,

My fault.

I've fixed the CM11a plugin. You can download a corrected version from here.

Scott

ericvic · Post by **ericvic** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 10:04 am

Scott,

Thanks but which way did you change it?

Eric

Post by **ScottBot** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 10:12 am

Zero based (0-31). Since the reporting code in the CM11a is new, I'd rather only effect you than anyone else who is using the values from the Device side.

ericvic · Post by **ericvic** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 11:23 am

Scott,

No problem it is an easy change on my side, just needed to know which way it was.

Again thanks for all the quick changes you have been doing.

Eric

ericvic · Post by **ericvic** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 11:26 am

Scott,

I'm about finished with the thermostat plug-in. Is there anyway you can send me the source for the CM11A plug-in because I want to start on the LynX-10 PLC plug-in and would like some sample code to get me going.

Thanks,

Eric

bsmout · Post by **bsmout** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 5:22 pm

Eric,

I installed your plug-in and I'm considering buying a RCTX15B thermostat but then I saw there's also a RCTX16B available. Is the 16B compatible with your plug-in ? Does anyone know what the difference is with the 15B ?

ericvic · Post by **ericvic** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 5:41 pm

One of the main differences between the TX15B and TX16B is that the latter has heat and cool setpoints. There are some other minor differences but I don't remember exactly what they are. You can set the TX16B in TX15B mode so they should be compatible but I don't have a TX16B to test with.

If you get a TX16B and have troubles let me know and I will try to add some code to the plug-in to get it working.

Eric

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Thermostat Device

RCTX15B vs. RCTX16B