OK, Vangelis, just to share your pain, apologies for my absence. Please do not think I have been enjoying Comfort Indigo connectivity nirvana, I just struggle to fit trouble-shooting this issue around the day job! Thanks Chiu, Ident, for the tips.
I \'nearly\' have this working. I manage to make a \'read-only\' connection to Comfort which allows Indigo to listen to the codes and react to them. This works really well as it allows things like the IP control of a Denon amp (welcome home with playlist - potentially by user), CCTV (when outside sensors detect motion - message a snapshot of cameras to iPhones), connectivity to Netatmo, sending iOS notifications of Comfort events etc. etc. When it works it is great.
However, how I am making this connection is not quite right, and it may persist for a day, or a week, or even several weeks, but then it drops and won\'t restart without a precise sequence of events. This has puzzled me for months.
I think this is because whilst I am able to get Indigo to make a persistent secure connection to Comfort, I am unable to get Indigo to send text in the correct format to Comfort. I think it is to do with this /03 character.
Initially I thought I had it all licked, but I have realised, I think it has been my sequence using ClearConnect which just happens to work, but which I have been unable to figure out how to solve a sustained connection, using Indigo. I\'ll explain my current connection sequence.
Using Indigo
http://www.indigodomo.com on the Mac, I have used the Network plugin to create a connection to Indigo. This connects, persists, and actually locks out other connections such as Configurator.
Initially, I thought that LI1234 /03 was the correct sequence, following earlier comments in this thread last year with Ident.
However what I have realised, I think, is that I am not successfully managing to get the Indigo Network plug in to send any text which Comfort is recognising. What is actually happening is that I have been logging in with Clear Connex and then using that connection in to Indigo. Iââ¬â¢ll explain.
If I establish the connection using the Network plugin
http://www.cynic.org/indigo/plugins/online/network.html, I am unable to get any response from Comfort or even log in whatever combination of /03LI1234 or /LI 1234 or 1234 /LI.
If, however, I disconnect indigo from Comfort, then form a connection with Clear Connex as described in Chuiââ¬â¢s post above, then close that connection in Clear Connex without logging out, then re-enable the connection in Indigo to Comfort, suddenly Indigo is listening to all the TCP traffic and can respond in the ways I describe above.
I think this is what I have been doing as it explains why I have had such an ââ¬Ëunreliableââ¬â¢ connection since first trying this a year ago. The connection fails, I go back through, test in Clear Connex, and then find it actually works again, but it may actually be Clear Connex establishing the connection, not the Indigo network plug in.
I have established a TCP connection between Indigo and Comfort.
I have got Indigo listening to TCP traffic (albeit inadvertently using the method I describe above).
I have not got Indigo to be able to send to Comfort.
I appreciate this is not to do with Comfort directly, and is a pretty niche issue, but any assistance in getting this last step working would be great for myself, Vangelis and anyone else thinking of connecting Comfort to a Mac home server.
