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[akbooer]

@krisztianszabo said in Vera or not vera?:

after the AltUi "reload engine" I get a "controller did not respond" response with an orange background.

This is absolutely normal and is simply AltUI noting that connection has been lost during the restart. The only time you need to worry is if there is a timer counting away the seconds for a long time.

[krisztianszabo]

Hi @DesT !
I don't want to urge you, I'm just interested,
do you have any good news about dsc?
Thanks.
K

[krisztianszabo]

Hi @akbooer ,
Another task ahead of me:
I have a 15 channel shutter control module that I want to run under OpenLuup. (if you help I can transfer the plugin files)

The shutter control interface is connected to the vera via usb.
The following setting is in Vera:

Where can I make such settings in openLuup?
Thanks

[PerH]

Probably much the same way as the RFX?
https://smarthome.community/topic/253/setting-up-rfxcom-plugin-in-standalone-openluup?_=1606133137706

baud, parity, etc is set up in the ser2net file.. then connect using IP:Port (127.0.0.1 if its on the local computer)

[krisztianszabo]

@perh
Thanks for the reply and tip.
I installed ser2net, I think it worked fine, but I don't have a / serial directory under the / dev directory .....
What do you think I should do then?

[PerH]

You're running Debian 10.6 right? if so its hidden, but just type cd /dev/serial/by-id/

[PerH]

if not, you can use /dev/ttyUSBxx(whatever usb you device is connected to)

[krisztianszabo]

@perh
How can I check if I am using debian 10.6?
I tried to type, but unfortunately there is no such directory ...

[krisztianszabo]

@perh said in Vera or not vera?:

if not, you can use /dev/ttyUSBxx(whatever usb you device is connected to)

There is no ttyUSB file in the / dev directory.
There are several tty files numbered here, but without USB ...

[PerH]

mabye its a "ttyACMx"?

You've reached the limit of my linux knowledge. Good luck.

[krisztianszabo]

I think I also reached the limit ....

[krisztianszabo]

@perh said in Vera or not vera?:

if not, you can use /dev/ttyUSBxx(whatever usb you device is connected to)

After many attempts, he finally succeeded.
Ser2net installed, restarted, ser2net.conf configured.
MySensors plugin is not red, startup lua does not write an error.

However:

The children's tools were not made, but the shutters did not appear.
Do they need to be created manually?

[krisztianszabo]

@dest said in Vera or not vera?:

@akbooer Last time, the thing I remember, the plugin was unable to "connect" to the socket on the DSC controller!

I would need to recreate my DSC device on openLuup and disable Vera for being able to test!

DSC.zip

Hi @DesT!

Maybe you may have fixed the dsc plugin error?

[DesT]

@krisztianszabo Nah sorry! Got too much thing to do @ work!

I will have more free time in a couple of weeks for the holidays!

[krisztianszabo]

@dest I think you have more important things than this.
Please let me know if you have any progress on the matter.
Thanks in advance.
K

[DesT]

@krisztianszabo I'm still working a lot for the next couples of days, after, I will have some spare time and will check that

[powisquare]

@akbooer said in Vera or not vera?:

I am, of course, biased...

You can progress in easy steps, and see how things improve. You will need another computer (Raspberry Pi of any sort is not a bad choice.)

• install openLuup on RPi
• link openLuup to Vera
• move any plugins to openLuup (really helps reliability)
• move scenes to openLuup (ditto)

These are easy steps for which there is much help available. If this is not reliable enough for you then

• buy a UZB stick with ZWave licence, and software (runs on RPi)
• clone your Vera ZWave network to it
• plug in UZB to RPi
• throw away Vera

Then you are in a hugely reliable, yet still familiar, home automation environment.

Thinking about replacing my 3 veras. Would it be possible to clone them to separate zway devices and continue with openluup/vera bridges?

[rafale77]

Thinking about replacing my 3 veras. Would it be possible to clone them to separate zway devices and continue with openluup/vera bridges?

Yes. Not using vera bridges but z-way bridges. And also unless they are physically non co-located mesh, or the number of devices exceed the capacity of one mesh (>~200 nodes) you probably are better off making them all one single mesh. z-way doesn't have the non-sensical overhead on the zwave network and can handle the full z-wave network mesh capacity. Having multiple z-wave networks at the same location really makes no sense since they will be interfering with one another causing latencies and dropped packets since they all share air time on the same 2 frequency channels.

[powisquare]

They are too far apart in my case but thanks for the heads up rafale. Advantage - I can test on the small mesh and see how it goes! : )