Comfort UPNP <-> SmartThings <-> Amazon Echo

[Pgordon]

I believe I have also seen odd things with what\'s discovered... As I mentioned a couple of posts above, I am seeing some devices discovered which I\'m fairly sure aren\'t in the config file I uploaded.. - but they may have been in the *default* template - and you remember that at one point earlier I uploaded the unmodified template inadvertently... is it not the case that uploading a config file should fully overwrite any config already uploaded previously? Is there any possibility that devices may have been remembered from a previous config? - I can\'t see any other reason why I would be getting additional devices...
Also, I\'m fairly sure that even though it has found 123 devices, and seems to have topped out there, I reckon I am still missing some... Yesterday afternoon I spent a little time organising all 123 into their respective rooms, so I\'ve created a dozen or so rooms in the app, moved everything thus far discovered into a room, and when looking at several rooms I am noticing absent devices...
The upside is that what is there does indeed seem to be working perfectly.   I have seen PIR\'s change state in the ST app, and I have used the app to control lights that are CBUS channels represented in Comfort as a flag or counter.
What I don\'t see are any responses - is that normal? - given what you\'ve previously said about the memory limits in ST I\'d half expect that you didn\'t try to discover & represent all the responses... that being the case, how does one then get a response represented in the ST app?
Cheers!
Paul G.

[Pgordon]

Pgordon wrote:

What I don\'t see are any responses - is that normal? - given what you\'ve previously said about the memory limits in ST I\'d half expect that you didn\'t try to discover & represent all the responses... that being the case, how does one then get a response represented in the ST app?
Cheers!
Paul G.

DOH! - I just saw the relevant information in the instructions document! - ignore me, I haven\'t had enough coffee yet...
Cheers
Paul G.

[mattbrain]

Hi Paul

Yes, SmartThings may remember old devices if you have more than one instance of the SmartApp installed - as I mentioned earlier, the interface isn\'t ideal - rule of thumb is:

Initial discovery should be done by going to:
MarketPlace -> SmartApps -> My Apps -> Comfort Manager (or Cytech Zone UPNP Manager v1 for 1.0.0 installs)
Subsequent discovery (once you have selected some initial devices) can be done from:
Automation -> SmartApps -> Comfort Manager (or Cytech Zone UPNP Manager v1 for 1.0.0 installs)
If you repeat the first stage you may end up duplicating devices causing the error message.

I would recommend that any old devices \'hanging around\' should be deleted which will tidy stuff up. Please check in Automation -> SmartApps to make sure you don\'t have more than one instance of the App installed which might cause some friction.

Thanks,

Matt

[HenleyBranch]

Hi Matt

I have had a Comfort system going for 6+ years and have connected it to my Mac via Indigo. Have been following this thread with serious interest. I have now got all the required bits and am ready to roll.

I started following the steps on Github, but not being experienced with Pi have struggled with copying across the various files such as peer-ssdp.js across. I then discover there is now (as of 23rd Jan) a preconfigured disk image on drop box (on page 6 of this thread). Except the link doesn\'t work for me? Is this saved anywhere else?!

Really excited by what you have done here, and keen to get going.

H

[mattbrain]

Hi H

I updated the image to fix an issue - please see the new link below:

[user=912]mattbrain[/user] wrote:

Hi All

So the new version can be downloaded from this link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4178...0a.img.zip

A quick disclaimer (and as a result of Paul\'s observation) - I have been in the office today, so whilst I have tested the fix remotely by VPN\'ing into my test environment, I have repackaged it by mounting the distribution image on a linux machine, popping in the changes and then saving them out. I haven\'t actually written an SD Card using this image myself so there is an outside risk it won\'t mount properly.

Please give it a go and let me know how you get on - my wife has a cold so suspect i\'ll be looking after the kids (and her) this evening and won\'t get chance to test this disk image until tomorrow.

The feedback you have both given me today has been invaluable - one of the things which caught me out is how windows and linux differ in their use of CR/LF. All the work I do is on OSX and Linux and had overlooked this obvious gotcha.

It\'s worth mentioning the text file editing will be the next thing to go - I want allow the configuration to be edited directly in the web gui and will make this happen for the next release.

Thanks,

Matt

[HenleyBranch]

Thanks Matt, for such a prompt response. It\'s downloading now. Will try again tomorrow evening.

HB

[mattbrain]

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[indent]Can you comment on the number of events which occur with all the devices - one other constraint imposed by SmartThings is a maximum event triggers per SmartApp which is at around 250 per minute - this is reported in the Comfort Bridge device as EPM. If you exceed this threshold, SmartThings may drop events (although I have never seen this in practice).[/indent]
Thanks,

Matt

really sorry not monitor this thread for some time .....  How to know the events per minute ?  Other side the events occur per minute seem less than 250  

[mattbrain]

[user=5404]bagushandhoko[/user] wrote:

[indent]Can you comment on the number of events which occur with all the devices - one other constraint imposed by SmartThings is a maximum event triggers per SmartApp which is at around 250 per minute - this is reported in the Comfort Bridge device as EPM. If you exceed this threshold, SmartThings may drop events (although I have never seen this in practice).[/indent]
Thanks,

Matt

really sorry not monitor this thread for some time .....  How to know the events per minute ?  Other side the events occur per minute seem less than 250

Events Per Minute are reported by the ComfortBridge device in SmartThings - Its reported as xxx EPM where x is the number of events in the last minute. I\'m going to add a couple of additional metrics such as daily, weekly and all-time high so it can be better monitored.
Thanks,
Matt

[Pgordon]

Matt, did you make any progress with the login option on the Pi? - I\'d like to be able to logon to the console on he Pi, - if I\'m reading it right, the load on the Pi by the comfort bridge is really trivial, (It\'s the latest Pi 3 model B), so I think I could easily have it doing some other things as well...
I recall there was an option to add a \"1\" to the end of the options set in a config file, - but I think the Windows vs Linux CRLF issue made it not work for me...
Not urgent, but when you have a moment, it would be a nice to have... :-)

Cheers

Paul G.