You can purchase CM4 to CM3 adapter boards which should work - I do believe one of the existing users has already tried and confirmed ...   Wednesday Mar 30th, 2022 12:30 pm

Sorry, fixed. ...   Friday Sep 17th, 2021 12:21 pm

Hi All After an extended period with little activity on the software development, I'm pleased to announce alphaWerk are releasing the UCM/Pi software as opensource.  ...   Wednesday Sep 15th, 2021 12:22 pm

The alphaWerk components uses MQTT as their backend & Mosquitto is installed on the CM3. It is locked to localhost only by default but can ...   Friday Jul 12th, 2019 11:25 am

At the moment it publishes Zones, Output, Counters, Flags and Sensors and allows Virtual Zones, Outputs, Counters and Flags to be set. I haven't yet added ...   Friday Jul 5th, 2019 12:28 pm

It's documented here: https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/mqtt/discovery/ We have turned this into a Node-Red flow which parses the Comfort Comfiguration file and created the necessary nodes and then populates ...   Friday Jul 5th, 2019 12:11 pm

Not a binding as such, but as OpenHab supports HomeAssistant discovery over MQTT, I just created a flow which used it. Thanks, Matt ...   Thursday Jul 4th, 2019 07:04 pm

Good to hear Matt. We have OpenHab and HomeAssistant support running including automatic discovery of objects over MQTT. All this is done on a UCM/Pi which ...   Thursday Jul 4th, 2019 01:12 pm

Hi Palmlodge. If you're interested in the UCM/Pi and are prepared to join the beta programme (as wexfordman has), please drop me a note on matt.brain@alphawerk.co.uk ...   Tuesday Jun 18th, 2019 03:43 pm

Hi The hardware is now available commercially and can be bought from Chiu. Instructions are in development and will be provided to get you started. Currently Node-Red ...   Tuesday May 28th, 2019 02:25 pm

I suggest you take a look at what node-red can do, the possibilities are limited only by your imagination. Some examples of integrations are: Monitoring, controlling and ...   Wednesday May 22nd, 2019 12:56 pm

The UCM/Pi adds an industrial grade Raspberry Pi CM3 to the Comfort system on which you can run Node-Red (amongst other things). Node-Red has a module ...   Wednesday May 22nd, 2019 09:08 am

Hi waynebr We are no longer actively supporting the separate Raspberry Pi and SmartThings solution due to reliability issues with SmartThings and the development of the ...   Thursday Apr 18th, 2019 11:05 am

Hi All Please find below the link to the UCM/Pi Beta Phase 2 application form. If you are interested, please complete the form and we will be ...   Friday Mar 8th, 2019 02:56 pm

Hi David (and thanks John for replying so quickly). I'm the developer of the UCM/Pi solution and it sounds like it would be a good fit ...   Monday Feb 4th, 2019 06:01 pm

Please see the announcement for the phase 2 beta testing programme ...   Friday Dec 7th, 2018 09:16 am

We shipped the first round of beta UCM/Pi's 4 weeks ago and have a healthy community of testers helping identify bugs and improvements. We are planning ...   Friday Dec 7th, 2018 09:13 am

The UCM/Pi currently being worked on between ourselves (AlphaWerk) and Cytech utilises node-red as the core logic engine. I personally use the Honeywell Evohome which is ...   Sunday Oct 14th, 2018 06:45 am

Hi All In the event you are interested in the Beta Release of the Production Build, and you haven't yet received an email to join, or ...   Tuesday Jul 24th, 2018 10:38 am

Hi Guys Thank you so much for your patience. I am really pleased to announce the initial beta release will be available shortly, and I'll be ...   Sunday Jul 22nd, 2018 08:31 am

Another quick update - the next batch of prototypes is currently being hand finished. I hope to have my hands on one in the next ...   Tuesday Jul 10th, 2018 12:28 pm

Sorry it's been a little quite on here recently. In terms of updates, the core Cytech code has already been written and I have been busy ...   Monday Jul 9th, 2018 01:28 pm

w/c 6th July A much delayed post here. The last few weeks has seen refactoring of the core code and general tidying up as well as ...   Wednesday May 16th, 2018 02:55 pm

Hi All If you have found yourself able to see this forum, you must have applied to be a beta tester of the UCM/Pi solution. Please say ...   Wednesday May 16th, 2018 07:52 am

Hi All Thank you for your interest, as promised please find a link to download the presentation below: https://www.dropbox.com/s/g6zd6oap32b0im0/Meeting%20Recording%20-%20Introduction%20to%20the%20UCMPi%20.mp4?dl=0 If you watch it directly from the browser, dropbox ...   Wednesday May 9th, 2018 10:05 am

And a web based dashboard for mobiles: ...   Wednesday May 2nd, 2018 08:51 pm

All these devices are Comfort Zones and Outputs... ...   Wednesday May 2nd, 2018 10:52 am

A simple chart... ...   Wednesday May 2nd, 2018 10:51 am

Hi Guys Thanks for you interest in the webinar, all those who have emailed me should have received invites for next Wednesday. Please try and get on ...   Wednesday May 2nd, 2018 10:40 am

Hi Folks Thanks for your interest. I would like to ensure we can include Cytech on the call, and therefore would like to propose 9am on ...   Friday Apr 27th, 2018 09:54 am

Hi All Thank you for your patience, it's been slowly cooking in the development kitchen, but we are close enough now to start talking about what ...   Saturday Apr 21st, 2018 05:43 pm

Hi Jim Sorry to hear you have been having problems. I'd be happy to work on this issue 'on-line' via screen sharing session as it's really ...   Monday Apr 9th, 2018 04:45 pm

Hi Guys Sorry about the delay in following up - head is down in other stuff. Some quick qeustions: When the zones freeze, is it everything. ...   Thursday Mar 22nd, 2018 12:39 am

Hi All It's back up - your systems should all start behaving well shortly. You can force it faster by pressing refresh in the comfort device in ...   Monday Mar 5th, 2018 12:58 am

Hi Guys I have just got back from a weekend on a charity fundraiser for Macmillan and only saw this issue earlier today when it was ...   Sunday Mar 4th, 2018 11:58 pm

The RPi CM3 has 4Gb of built in flash which would store the operating system, code and configuration. I am currently working on having the ...   Friday Feb 16th, 2018 04:17 pm

JP5 is for the Raspberry Pi CM3 Module. We are still working through some electrical gremlins, but rest assured development is moving forward nicely. I have ...   Tuesday Feb 13th, 2018 09:16 pm

Following up on this thread, I'd like to share with you the progress we are making. We have identified a couple of small hardware issues with ...   Thursday Feb 8th, 2018 06:16 pm

The issues with SD card corruption are painful and obviously not desirable for a commercial solution. I have been making some headway with overcoming this, as ...   Thursday Feb 8th, 2018 05:51 pm

Yes, this has been interesting. I actually saw this issue on my device recently as a result of changes Samsung have been making. It looks ...   Thursday Feb 8th, 2018 05:45 pm