This new HomeSeer plug-in has been developed by Philip Colley This is from the manual: |
This new plug-in is developed by Philip Colley pjcolley@globalnet.co.uk
It allows Homeseer to receive commands issued by Comfort via either the
Serial or Ethernet UCM and action events/scripts as required. Devices
are created in Homeseer to represent all the various zones and status items
that Comfort reports including full image support for these. These items are
fully configurable so you only have the items you want i.e. you are not
forced to have 250 counters when you only intend to use 5.
It has in-built support for logging certain zones like the Door Bell
and Phone so rather than just knowing for instance that you missed "x"
number of calls whilst you were out, you can see at what time each one occurred.
To try and keep things as secure as possible the web interface
presented by Homeseer has been kept as purely one way just displaying the zones/status
items and not allowing control. Homeseer actions are present to perform
some minor commands on Comfort but for total control the plug-in exposes
routines that can be used by events or scripts. Some are specialised like arming
commands that remove the need for login codes to be visible externally
but there is also the general purpose "Transmit" routine that allows you to
send any command from the RS232 documentation.
It includes full support for bypassing of the input zones with the zone
device displaying a warning image whilst they are bypassed.
Due to changes that occurred when Homeseer version 2.0 was released
this plug-in will not support previous versions of it.
At present the plug-in is written in Borland Delphi as a win32
standalone application, so it runs in its own thread along side Homeseer which
should keep both systems more reliable. The interface to the Serial/Ethernet
UCM connection to Comfort is also handled directly rather than through
Homeseer (HS).
I've hopefully included full functionality that the Comfort panel can
deal with but if you find any ability that you require is not present then
please feel free to let me know. As this is very much an ongoing project I'm
more than happy to add functionality.
Key features:- |
- Variable number of zones for each zone type.
- Supports Inputs, Outputs, Counters and RIO zones.
- Full support for zone images and custom on/off values.
- User selectable status zones.
- Device to show when and why the last alarm condition occurred.
- Choice of connection via Serial or Ethernet UCM.
- Sending commands to Comfort is optional for greater security.
- Monitoring of the connection to Comfort, with automatic re-connection attempts.
- Devices to mirror the keypad LED's or simulate if your UCM does not support this command.
- Exit checker to notify if arming fails.
- Inbuilt user names list for more friendly messages
- Ability to automatically use multiple house codes when devices exceed 99.
- Initial setup can be done by reading the Comfort CCL configuration file to obtain zone names.
- Transmit function to allow sending to Comfort via HS scripts.
- Counter zones allow setting of Min/Max values with triggers when exceeded.
- In excess of 24 triggers and 12 actions available for HS Events.
- Support for conditions in HS events.
- Battery replacement monitoring with regular reminder triggers.
- Logging of Phone Rings and Doorbell to file with in built function to retrieve lists.
- Inbuilt support for running HS event when Alarm mode changes based on previous mode and which user actioned the change.
- Testing routine allows sending commands to control Comfort or simulate commands from Comfort to the plug-in with the commands selected
from a list.
- Full logging support for possible fault tracking.
- Support for bypassing of zones with visual notification on device.
- Ability to synchronise the Comfort clock with the PC clock.
- Support for Comfort's Open Zones notification with simple retrieval of zone names for HS announcements etc.
The plug-in is currently still in the testing stage. Please contact Phil directly for details
Last edited on Wednesday May 24th, 2006 01:44 pm by slychiu
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