Re: Heating controller protocol

["Raymond Kelly" <raymondtkelly@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bruce,
Sorry to hijack but how did you get hold of the Heatmiser commands to do
what you have done to date
Cheers

On 03/12/2007, bruce33sw <watson2@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   Hi all,
>
> I've recently installed some very nice Heatmiser kit - 2 room
> thermostats and a UH1 and, with some kindly help from this and other
> groups, managed to cobble together a bit of command line C to control
> them remotely over their 485 bus from a linux box serial port. Nice to
> be able to log in remotely and turn on/off the heating. Early days but
> so far, so good.
>
> The next stage is to get a control interface sorted out and before I
> re-invent the wheel, as usual, I thought I'd ask if anyone knows of an
> open source protocol/server that I could implement the interface to
> for the Heatmisers. What I mean here is I could write some code (say C
> or java) that ran as a service that would control the Heatmisers and
> allow other open third party UI modules (written by others or myself).
>
> I have seen some excellent stuff going on with xpl but it seems to
> have more of a windows focus and therefore may not fit the bill for
me.
>
> Does anyone know of such an open protocol/API?
>
> Cheers, Bruce.
>
> P.S. Has anyone contacted Heatmiser before to see if they would
> support open source tools for their devices (in the hope it
> sells more units for them)? i.e. I'd like to open source the (very
> simple) stuff I've done. I should say my reason for buying their
> controllers and UH1 in the first place was because there was a chance
> I could control them remotely.
>
>
>


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