Re: Barionet xAP code

[Kevin Hawkins <yahoogroupskh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Glad it's working Andre ,

I'm finding a few issues with the code and I'm adding a few bits as
I progress.  It's likely I'll release an update in a week or so any
changes you want let me know - if you can highlight the actual code
changed that would be great.  Please use copious comments too.

Re the decimal values - BSC doesn't support these either - nor does
it support negative values.  What you can do however is to report them
as a displaytext parameter within a BSC block - and you can form the
decimal number by using scaled integer arithmetic in BCL and then create
a string and insert the decimal point

displaytext=51.24°c

Or you could abandon the level based BSC device altogether and use a
text one instead    text=-11.25°F

Actually, and more approriately for such 'telemetry' data we have
another schema called TSC , it's not as universal as BSC yet but we hope
eventually it will become so. - the spec for BSC and TSC are on the xAP
website

http://www.xapautomation.org/index.php?title=Schema

Kevin


Andre Van Der Merwe wrote:
>
> Hi Kevin,
>
>
>
> no you answered my questions. i have just not checked this email
recently.
>
>
>
> the system is now working and i am getting the 1-wire temperatures out
> fine. Unfortunately the Barionet BCL code does not support floating
> point variables, so I can only get integer degree celcius out. If is
> use the correct xAP schema , typically 23degC corresponds to 368/4096.
> this works great.
>
>
>
> Now i am working on getting the 368/4096 to make some sence in
homeseer.
>
>
>
> I made some changes to the code to achieve the above. Also in the code
> it refers to a "config.txt" file which should change to
"xapcfg.txt".
> Shall i send the update ?
>
> --- On *Tue, 6/3/08, Kevin Hawkins /<yahoogroupskh@xxxxxxx>/*
> wrote:
>
>     From: Kevin Hawkins <yahoogroupskh@xxxxxxx>
>     Subject: Re: [xap_automation] Barionet xAP code
>     To: xap_automation@xxxxxxx
>     Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 11:58 AM
>
>     Andre,
>
>     Phew....We seem to have a communication problem..
>
>     I responded to a post you made a few days back in the xAP mi4
>     plugin area on the HomeSeer BBS where you were actually using the
mcs
>     plugin - fortunately Michael saw it anyway. Also on the Barix
>     Barionet
>     forum last week I responded too and you said you already had the
>     code..
>     I have taken a look at the Barionet xAP code (the BSC v1.3
>     version) and
>     so I dusted off my own Barionet, re-tokenized it and it loaded
>     fine. I
>     posted some detailed instructions there as to how to do this.
Quite
>     why it was dusty I'm not sure as it's a great device on xAP and I
>     shall
>     be using it now going forwards :-)
>
>     Since then, with Edwards permission, I have updated the code
>     slightly to fix a couple of issues I spotted and I have sent you
two
>     revised versions by email . I also sent you directly by email the
>     .cob
>     file so you could load it directly into your Barionet - assuming
you
>     have the latest firmware - but I haven't been able to get any info
>     from
>     you as to which Barionet firmware you are running. Then you posted
>     a HomeSeer plugin issue question and so I tried it out here and it
>     worked fine but I noticed you were still not using the latest
>     firmware I
>     sent you :-(
>
>     So I don't know what more we can do... Please can you check your
>     email and try those most recent versions I sent you. They work
>     perfectly well here. You seem to be using an old xAP v1.2 / BSC
v1.2
>     version still. You can of course use the previous BSC v1.3 version
>     direct from Edward but you will manually have to fix a couple of
>     issues
>     that I have already corrected in my version. You will need to
address
>     the 'state =' vs 'state=' parameter name and also levels are
>     mistakenly
>     reported in the state= parmeter eg state=100/1024 . In my version
>     '12b' 1.12 this is already fixed for you.
>
>     Over the next few weeks I shall be revising the code to hopefully
>     support new features that later Barionet firmward now offers eg
>     counters
>     and more 1-wire sensors, maybe threshold settings for the state=
>     parameter in level devices. The revision I already released
provides
>     compliance with both xAP v1.3 and BSC v1.3. Please let me know
>     anything you would like to have added here, although for any
custom
>     changes you are free to adapt the source code anyway.
>
>     Let us know how you want to move forward.....
>
>     Kevin
>
>     andrevdm wrote:
>     >
>     > Hi Edward,
>     >
>     > on you blueyonder website you invite to contact you if
interested in
>     > your .bas code for the xAP version 1.3.
>     >
>     > is it still available ?
>     >
>     > regards
>     >
>     > Andre
>     >
>     >
>
>
>


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