Re: Door contacts with a weeder digital

> I have a weeder digital IO board and have connected up 5 door contacts.  
> I have searched and followed every example I can find, but most of them
> relate to using the weeder to control relays.  The Wiki goes into detail
> about using the weeder for outputs, but unfortunately just briefly
> mentions inputs.  I have the following in my mh.private.ini
>
> weeder_port=/dev/ttyUSB7
> weeder_baudrate=9600
>
> I have tried a couple of different serial ports.  I have a w800,
> Insteon_PLM and a 1-wire interface working fine on my 8 port USB->Serial
> unit.
>
> this is a snippet from my mh.log
>
> Found managed X10_W800.pm module
> MH will now require X10_W800.pm and call &X10_W800::startup
>  - creating W800 port on /dev/ttyUSB1
> Found managed serial port=Insteon_PLM
> MH will now require Insteon_PLM.pm and call
> Insteon_PLM::serial_startup(Insteon_PLM)
> 07/10/08 01:47:51 AM [Insteon_PLM] serial:/dev/ttyUSB0:19200
>  - creating Insteon PLM port on /dev/ttyUSB0
>  - creating weeder port on /dev/ttyUSB7
>  - process id 8243 written to /opt/misterhouse/data/mh.pid
>  - external command file (xcmd_file): ./../house_cmd.txt
>  - HTML file     : ./../web/ia5/index.shtml
> Done with setup
>
> It looks to create the weeder port just fine.
>
> I am not sure what else to do from here?  The only time I saw any
> response in my log file was an A!, which indicates board reset or powerup.
> I have the 5 inputs on A-E, with a common to GND.  I am using a 9vDC
> power adapter to power the weeder with the jumper on EXT.
>
> The documentation seems to support that the default for the port is
> input, which should work for my magnetic door contacts.  I did try the
> following bit of perl, which was adapted from the weeder_io.pl file I
> found in MH, but I am not sure this is correct.  I also dont know if I
> need anything in my items.mht file.
>
>
> # digital items
> $front_door_a       = new  Serial_Item('AAH', OPENED, 'weeder');        #A
> $front_door_a      -> add             ('AAL', CLOSED, 'weeder');
> $front_door_a      -> add             ('ASA', 'init', 'weeder');
> $front_door_a      -> add             ('ARA', 'read', 'weeder');
>
> $door_b             = new  Serial_Item('ABH', OPENED, 'weeder');        #B
> $door_b            -> add             ('ABL', CLOSED, 'weeder');
> $door_b            -> add             ('ASB', 'init', 'weeder');
> $door_b            -> add             ('ARB', 'read', 'weeder');
>
> $door_c             = new  Serial_Item('ACH', OPENED, 'weeder');        #C
> $door_c            -> add             ('ACL', CLOSED, 'weeder');
> $door_c            -> add             ('ASC', 'init', 'weeder');
> $door_c            -> add             ('ARC', 'read', 'weeder');
>
> $door_d             = new  Serial_Item('ADH', OPENED, 'weeder');        #D
> $door_d            -> add             ('ADL', CLOSED, 'weeder');
> $door_d            -> add             ('ASD', 'init', 'weeder');
> $door_d            -> add             ('ARD', 'read', 'weeder');
>
> $door_e             = new  Serial_Item('AEH', OPENED, 'weeder');        #E
> $door_e            -> add             ('AEL', CLOSED, 'weeder');
> $door_e            -> add             ('ASE', 'init', 'weeder');
> $door_e            -> add             ('ARE', 'read', 'weeder');
>
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> James
>
>
>
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