CM11-12-17A PLUG-IN

[quixote]

I am using the CM11a.

Initially I had trouble openning the port, but it seemed to work after a couple of reboots (???). I was just thinking, shouldn't the plugin have a working settings button, rather than it's own tab?

The Plugin loads now, but says that it is not sending events.
I tried using my old GML events and commands, but the only command that is functional is the ON command, and when I edited them to check the settings, they were blank.

I thought that this was only because I was trying to use my old GML, but upon learning and testing the new commands, I found that it's exactly the same with those.

My X10 RF signals are seen by girder, but I cannot figure out how to learn the signals as events. I don't think there is any way. One thing I noticed is that when the signal from one of my motion sensors or X10 remotes registers, it is shown only as "On" or "Off" with "CM11-12-17A as the comment, but no indication of what housecode it was. I have all of my motion sensors to trigger different events based on which one it is that is triggered and sometimes it helps to see which ones are being triggered. Girder 3.3 shows me the event as "D-1 ON" and so on at the bottom left of the window.

Thanks for all of your work.

[Ron]

> Initially I had trouble openning the port, but it seemed to work after a couple of reboots (???). I was just thinking, shouldn't the plugin have a working settings button, rather than it's own tab?

No. This is the new way of doing things :-)

> The Plugin loads now, but says that it is not sending events.
> I tried using my old GML events and commands, but the only command that is functional is > the ON command, and when I edited them to check the settings, they were blank.

Ignore the not sending events string, it is sending. Send me the GML BEFORE you edited them. I could not test this as I couldn't get the old plugin to work.

> I thought that this was only because I was trying to use my old GML, but upon learning and testing the new commands, I found that it's exactly the same with those.

Did you select the right interface? CM11/12 of 17

>My X10 RF signals are seen by girder, but I cannot figure out how to learn the signals as events. I don't think there is any way. One thing I noticed is that when the signal from one of my motion sensors or X10 remotes registers, it is shown only as "On" or "Off" with "CM11-12-17A as the comment, but no indication of what housecode it was. I have all of my motion sensors to trigger different events based on which one it is that is triggered and sometimes it helps to see which ones are being triggered. Girder 3.3 shows me the event as "D-1 ON" and so on at the bottom left of the window.

Girder sends that information in the payloads. Check 'Legacy Eventstring' on the settings tab to get the old eventstrings back. Again this is untested since my CM17 does not send anything.

[quixote]

No. This is the new way of doing things :-)

Cool. You're the boss. :)


Ignore the not sending events string, it is sending. Send me the GML BEFORE you edited them. I could not test this as I couldn't get the old plugin to work.

Ok, I'm just heading off for bed, but I will send you my GML tomorrow after work.


Did you select the right interface? CM11/12 of 17
Yes, I did.


Girder sends that information in the payloads. Check 'Legacy Eventstring' on the settings tab to get the old eventstrings back.

Sweet. It works now. Does this mean that I need to drag the event from the logger in order to learn it as a trigger/event? This could involve a bit of leg work. :wink:

[Ron]

You can also simply type the eventstring if you know what it is supposed to be, just open the event editor, select the right event device.

[quixote]

I didn't see the event device in the drop-down. That's what I meant...

[Ron]

Ooohhh I see! Girder doesn't realize that plugin can send events. I'll fix that.

[quixote]

Thanks in advance!

[Ron]

Wow, I must have been sleeping by the end. Here is the updated plugin. It should work a whole lot better.

[quixote]

:o
You are one very dedicated developer.
Thanks so much for helping me and the other cm11 (etc.) users. With X10 capability now I can really start playing with G4. I wrote an email to Mr. Rhees today asking him if he would consider a plug-in for G4. I hope he's not too busy.
Have a nice night (day) :)

[quixote]

Well, The plugin is working flawlessly so far. I have tried some tests and have not found a single problem. Nice work, Ron!
There is only one thing that I would suggest, and I'm probably just being picky, but it would be nice to be able to change the type of command in the editor. Ie.- I click and drag the "ON" command over to my group and configure the settings when the box pops up. later on I realize that I've made a mistake and it should be OFF instead. There is no way to switch it except recreate the command, configure it again and relearn the event. (not that it's too much trouble).
Anyhow, thanks again. This weekend I'm going to start over on my GML and then hopefully I can completely switch to G4 and eliminate 3.3.

[Ron]

You can actually switch command types but you will loose the inputs that you did. Anyway you should move the events over to the new node instead of re-creating it.

[quixote]

ok. can you tell me how to switch it, because I looked at the list of commands on the left of the editor and it seems that there is nothing under the CMx plugin. :-?

oh, and I just realized... the CM11 and firecracker can be removed from the "Plugins known not to work with G4" sticky thread.

[Ron]

You are right, that was a bug, fixed in next release.

[quixote]

I don't see a way of switching a commmand from ON to OFF without replacing the command. Is this a bug, or your final decision? Just curious, as I'm editing my GML again and I have about 150 to edit. Thanks.