Fw: Re: Heatmiser - advice please?!

[Gareth Cook <g@xxxxxxxxxx>]

New ones do yes - although ive had countless central touchpads with
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firmwares for various issues. Seems stable at the moment.

Gareth Cook
IT Architect / Project Manager, SWG Sales Europe
Office: +44 (0)1784 445166 - Mobile: +44 (0)7980 445166
email: g@xxxxxxx

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Raymond,=20

Thats exactly it - its a bus.  The price for their hardware is expensive=20
but you can use a standard RS232 or usb to rs485 adaptor and there is a=20
protocol document flying around. I'm sure there is probably a tcpip to=20
RS485 device as well you could check http://www.bb-europe.com.  Very=20
impressed with the heatmiser stats and if they would provide the
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as open source I'll bet they would sell alot more of those stats.  The old=
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ones I have dont allow me to maintain the time centrally but as fas as I=20
know new ones do.

Martin










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From: Raymond Kelly=20
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Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: [ukha_d] Re: Heatmiser - advice please?!


I'm about to purchase a shed load of the heatmiser 12V stats as well.
There's something that I basically don't understand.
Each stat communicates via 485 comms so to control every stat I connect=20
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single 485/232 converter to the '485 bus' as every stat will effectively=
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be
on the same pair of wires?
Sorry I don't really understand 485 comms, and the heatmiser web site
doesn't explain anything

So I connect my converter do some sniffing and off I go?
I note that they have an IP based controller @ =A3350

On 07/01/2008, Gareth Cook <g@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Exactly. I want some logging action.
>
> Gareth Cook
> IT Architect / Project Manager, SWG Sales Europe
> Office: +44 (0)1784 445166 - Mobile: +44 (0)7980 445166
> email: g@xxxxxxx <g%40uk.ibm.com>
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> I thought the whole point in using a thermostat, rather than just a=20
1-wire
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> temperature sensor and an appliance module, is that the control is=20
done by
> the thermostat. The PC is just acting as an interface, monitoring and
> changing setpoints.
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> Mark
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:
> ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of
> Gareth Cook
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> Im more interested in getting the data into Comfort (and therefore
> Homeseer)
>
> I use HS just for logging - I could never trust a PC to run the home !
>
> G.
>
> Gareth Cook
> IT Architect / Project Manager, SWG Sales Europe
> Office: +44 (0)1784 445166 - Mobile: +44 (0)7980 445166
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> Gareth,
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> I am looking at the Heatmiser stats and would ideally like to=20
integrate
> them
> into homeseer.
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> Homeseer has a thermostat API and there is a document detailing the
> heatmiser protocol, so it would be a matter of writing a driver that
> translates the API calls to serial commands. I'm sure it is
possible,=20
but
> not that easy.
>
> Mark
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> From: ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com
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> Subject: Fw: [ukha_d] Re: Heatmiser - advice please?!
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> Bruce
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> You reckon with a 485 to 232 dongle we could talk to heatmiser via say
> Comfort or HomeSeer quite easily ??
>
> G.
>
> Gareth Cook
> IT Architect / Project Manager, SWG Sales Europe
> Office: +44 (0)1784 445166 - Mobile: +44 (0)7980 445166
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> Hi Noel,
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> I couldn't find anything better than the heatmisers. I've just bought
> a bucket load more for the rest of the rooms. I just need to find time
> to complete the sw side of things... rather than have to ssh in to
> turn on the heating.
>
> Anyway, does this post/thread help?
> http://groups. <http://groups.
> < http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ukha_d/message/147813>
> yahoo.com/group/ukha_d/message/147813 >
> yahoo.com/group/ukha_d/message/147813
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> Note you need a serial->485 dongle (quite cheap) and there are
people
> around here somewhere with UI sw (VB etc.) if you aren't in to C=20
hacking.
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> Cheers, Bruce.
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