Re: Re: CTI Meteor Setup

["John B" <home-automation@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

---- Original Message ----
From: mark_harrison_uk2 <mph@xxxxxxx>
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "rb_ziggy"
<richard.boreham@n...> wrote:
> >
> > I've just bought a Meteor and I'm having some trouble getting it
to
> > work. I bought the hardware only and there were no installation
> > instructions - all seemed pretty self evident but I don't seem to
be
> > able to get it to work!
> [...]
> > When a call comes in nothing happens to the LEDs either. (Should
> > I?).  Also I can see nothing coming in on the serial port.
>
> I had the same problem.
>
> From memory, though I don't claim to understand the technical details,
> you need to do something funny to the serial ports. It doesn't just
> light up when you plug it into the PC, and simply firing up a terminal
> screen isn't good enough either.

You're quite right Mark - the Meteor gets it's power from the PC, so you
need to ensure the DTR and RTS pins of the serial port are always high.
(at least that's what I did in my xPL Meteor app to make it work)

> Suggest you run either the xPL or the xAP meteor plugins and see if
> they can make it work.

Agreed - there is so much free software out there for interfacing to a
Meteor, that you really shouldn't need to write your own code to interface
to it directly anymore.

The xPL Meteor service should cause the red LED to illuminate as soon as
the service is started.
ISTR the green LED only flashes when CID info is being received.

There is a HowTo document on using the Meteor with xPL here:
http://www.xplproject.org.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=27&page=1

HTH,

John