Re: Re: Homeseer 2 Plugin Question

[Kevin Hawkins <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

marcrfuller wrote:

>--- In xap_automation@xxxxxxx, Kevin Hawkins <lists@u...> wrote:
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>>When I alter the name of a xAP device and click 'Save' I get a
popup
>>of  Database Item : "Saving device WhateverName"  and
then about 5 secs
>>later I get another popup message from xAP Conduit "Device
list has
>>changed - need to reload data table".  . The device however
stays live
>>over restarts and is not re-detected ... .  Do you see both those
>>messages ?
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>No I don't see any popups what so ever. Are you using Homeseer 1 or
>Homeseer 2 ? I'm using Homeseer 2 via the web interface.
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Hmm - I dont think the device is correctly created in HS

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>>You're not by any chance renaming the xAP source address
>>somehow are you ? (which would cause exactly this behaviour as HS
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>I don't think so. To be honest I don't even know *how* to do that :d
>All I am changing the the device name in Homeseer.
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Sounds fine..

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>>  One thing I do experience from time to time is HomeSeer not
hearing
>>any xAP traffic but I think that is an issue with the rather
strange
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>hub
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>>setup I use here and not HomeSeer.  (You can tell if HS is
receiving
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>xAP
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>>traffic from the 'Stats' tab which will show the last received
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>Well, I think I am seeing several problems here which is confusing the
>issue. One issue appears to be that the devices just don't update any
>more, then after a few restarts they appear in "New Devices"
of the
>xAP plugin.
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>The second issue appears to be the same as yours.. I'll suddenly just
>stop receiving packets in Homeseer.. The STATS page shows none
>received. I can have a combination of one or both of the above
>problems at a time !
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Which xAP hub are you running - or perhaps just xAP Viewer ?

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>>and message count since restart). The fact you are re-detecting
devices
>>indicates this isn't the issue here though and I think it's only me
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>As above.. sometimes it does.. other times it doesn't see anything.
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>>   What xAP device are you adding to HomeSeer and is it added as a
>>device, a recognised schema device or just as a raw parameter value
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>I have no idea. Here is how I add a device.
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>I hit the xAP link on the main Homeseer page, and see the "New
>Hardware" tab is there. I click it. I see the following..
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>>>ersp.telemetry.homeserver.com3
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Right - sorry should have thought about  your other post .. - you're
using Edwards Quasar connector...and 'raw' xAP

>and the following below that.
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>   ersp.telemetry.homeserver.com3:one
>   ersp.telemetry.homeserver.com3:two
>   ersp.telemetry.homeserver.com3:three
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>I have three icons to the left of each one, a Red icon, a Green icon
>and a Grey icon. The grey is not clickable. I don't see an Orange icon.
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>I select the Green icon (Configure HomeSeer devices from this xAP
>Device). The next page appears with nother but a button saying
"Switch
>to Raw Mode" so I click that.
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>I select the location and put a tick next to "temp=" then
click
>"Create Device". It then takes me back to the "New
Hardware" tab.
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>Interestingly enough, I see this in the log at this point..
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>02/09/2005 15:19:48   Database Item  There were errors generated
>during the save of the database item. Please consult this log for more
>details and report any data loss to HomeSeer Technologies.
>02/09/2005 15:19:48   Database Item  Device Comparison Error 5, field
>name : Cannot set column 'name' to 'homeserver one homeserver com3 one
>temperature.current temp'. The value violates the MaxLength limit of
>this column. Exception:Cannot set column 'name' to 'homeserver one
>homeserver com3 one temperature.current temp'. The value violates the
>MaxLength limit of this column.
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Ahh - that's a good find,  and I suspect because of it HS is not
creating or initialising teh device correctly or perhaps James does some
maintenance work after teh device is created that isn't completing
because of this failure. I think we'll focus on this as renaming it
later might not recover. HomeSeer has a 50 character device name
restriction and xAP effectively doesn't so we do have to truncate names
to squeeze them in - what appears to be happening is the truncation
isn't enough here . What is strange is this (which is 59 characters)

"homeserver one homeserver com3 one temperature.current temp"  as
an equivalent of

ersp.telemetry.homeserver.com3:one + 'temperature' + 'current.temp'

So , looks like a possible gremlin in the plugin - could you copy the whole
xAP message that Edwards connector is sending from the Quasar and post it
here - I am guessing it looks something like

xap-header
{
v=12
UID=FF????00
Class= <something>
Source=ersp.telemetry.homeserver.com3:one     (or two or three or four)
}
temperature
{
current.temp=23.4
}


or something similar....

>This is obviously due to the long device name. So, I go into the
>status page and click on the newly created device. In "Device
Name" I
>change it from "homeserver com3 one temperature.current temp"
to "Node
>0 Temperature" and click Save. It continues to update fine and I
see
>the following in the log..
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>02/09/2005 15:22:22   Database Item  Saving Device Noce 0 Temperature
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>So it looks like it has now saved the device fine. It will continue to
>update ok for a while, then for no apparent reason, it will just stop.
> Now, there are strange things afoot. For example, sometimes the xAP
>link will dissapear from the homeseer webpage. If I click on setup,
>select interfaces and find xAP, the "Config" button is
missing too
>(although it still shows it as enabled). Usually I can then restart
>homeseer and it will reapear, but then I'll see under STATS that no
>packets are being received. Now sometimes I will get the "New
>Hardware" tab now.. or other times nothing will happen.
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>>PS I am using the 1961 build of HS2
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>Same here :)
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>To say I'm confused would be an understatement :)
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>Any help greatly appreciated.
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We'll get you going....

K