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  Types of UCMs
Posted by: slychiu - 07-12-2025, 05:48 AM - Forum: UCMs - No Replies

UCMs (Universal Communication Modules) refer to a range of products that allow Comfort to communicate to various systems (eg PCs, LAN, 3rd party products)
UCMs consist of a baseboard with a microcontroller and firmware, and a plug in module containing the interface which fits on top.

UCMs belong to one of 2 groups;

  1. Comfort Protocol UCMs
  2. External Protocol UCMs


Comfort Protocol UCMs communicate according to the Comfort Protocol
These  include;
The above 2 UCMs have the same firmware, and the only difference is the plug-in interface submodule. The plug in interface submodules can be removed and exchanged depending on the required USB or ethernet interface.

For convenience of stocking and ordering, the above UCMs can be ordered separately as UCM06 baseboard without interface and USB01 (USB submodule) or ETH03 (Ethernet submodule).

UCM/ETH03 and UCM/USB can both be used to program Comfort using the free Comfigurator Software
and they can also be used with other software applications that communicate using the Comfort Protocol. For example, the Comfort iOS and android apps require the UCM/ETH03.

Other independently developed  software applications like ComfortClient require the UCM/ETH03 to talk to Comfort

UCM/ETH03 and UCM/USB can also be used to Upgrading firmware on Comfort, other UCMs, and KP06 and KT03 keypads.


External Protocol UCMs are Application-specific UCMs which interface to specific third party systems and do not use the Comfort Protocol. It is not possible to program Comfort using these UCMs. These include
  • UCM/CBUS for CBUS by Schneider
  • UCM/KNX for KNX products
  • UCM/Zwave for Z-Wave wireless products
  • UCM/Velbus for Velbus by Velleman
  • UCM/GSM for GSM/SMS
  • UCM/Heatmiser for Heatmiser thermostats
  • UCM/Dupline for SmartHouse/Dupline
  • UCM/Universal for most other 3rd party systems which do not have a dedicated UCM Interface. The Universal UCM requires a AUX485, ETH03 or RS232 submodule depending on the type of interface of the other system.
  • UCM/Ulti for Clipsal Ulti RF switches
These UCMs consist of a baseboard and plug in module which has the specific interface.
The UCM baseboard is NOT the same as the UCM06 (used in UCM/ETH and UCM/USB). The  firmware on the UCM baseboard is specific for each type of interface submodule. Firmware for one type of UCM cannot be upgraded to a different type.

These UCMs are described in their individual manuals which can be downloaded from http://www.cytech.biz/ucm_manuals.html

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  Migrate from ETH02 to ETH03
Posted by: darnold - 07-07-2025, 01:15 PM - Forum: Ethernet UCM/ETH03 - Replies (3)

I recently received an ETH03 module to replace my existing ETH02 module.  A couple of questions:

1) Can I simply install the ETH03 module on the existing UCM board that currently hosts the ETH02 module?
2) Since I use the ETH02 board to access the system via Configurator is there a way to upgrade it over the network or do I need to connect to the Comfort alarm via a serial connection in order to configure the ETH03 module?

Thanks.

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  Outputs on Comfigurator lookup are duplicated
Posted by: Howser - 07-01-2025, 08:35 PM - Forum: Comfigurator - Replies (2)

My outputs are duplicated even the list of Ouputs shows the same number twice

I am using version v3.14.14.0



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  Text in GSM zone, alarm names limited to 16
Posted by: slychiu - 06-28-2025, 03:15 AM - Forum: GSM Module - No Replies

Zone names, alarm names and other text should have a maximum of 32 characters, more than Comfort zones and alarm names which are limited to 16. This is provided the ENGLISH property in GSM Properties is set to YES. If the ENGLISH property is NO, then the names is limited to 16 characters because non     -english languages require 2 bytes per character

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  test
Posted by: slychiu - 06-11-2025, 02:12 AM - Forum: Comfort I Issues - No Replies

tst

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  Comfort forums moved to new platform
Posted by: slychiu - 06-08-2025, 12:07 PM - Forum: NEWS & Announcements - No Replies

Please see https://www.comfortforums.com/thread-5639.html for the announcement

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  Comfort Forums has been migrated to MyBB
Posted by: slychiu - 06-08-2025, 02:59 AM - Forum: Forum/Website - Replies (7)

The Comfort Forums has been migrated  from the old UltraBB to MyBB which is a modern Open source Forum platform. The categories, forums, subforums and users have been been transferred to the new platform which is better supported and has many more features

The URL remains as http://www.comfortforums.com or https://www.comfortforums.com

However the passwords for the user accounts cannot be transferred, so you will have to reset your password when you log in for the first time.

The steps are:
-    Go to the forum login page.
-    Click on the "Forgot Password" or "Lost Password" link.
-    Enter your username or email address.
-    Follow the instructions in the password reset email that MyBB will send.

Please be assured  that your accounts and posts are safe.
Contact support@cytech.biz if you encounter issues

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  Zone displaying on Keypad
Posted by: DavidJ - 05-26-2025, 04:10 PM - Forum: Questions on Programming Comfort - Replies (2)

My system just reset itself and said something about \"key\" when it did so. I have no idea why this happened and need to look at as a next issue but currently the keypad shows each zones as it becomes active. Initially (after reset) it was calling out each zone (like walk test) but I seem to have resolved that. Now pad just showing each zone as they activate. Any advice on how to turn this off? 

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  Voice Assistants
Posted by: slychiu - 05-18-2025, 03:41 AM - Forum: Comfort with Home Assistant - Replies (2)

The Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition is a voice assistant hardware which  seamlessly integrates with Home Assistant. Its audio processor and dual microphones allow it to hear your commands and control devices in Home Assistant similar to Amazon Echo.

The Getting Started Guide is here https://support.nabucasa.com/hc/en-us/ar...ew-Edition

one of the many Youtube videos on the setup and usage is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vceoL59pmkk

Setting up is easy. However note that if you use Duckdns with Lets Encrypt so that access locally and remotely by by https, Voice  PE will not work as it requires access by http for setup and operation.



You can select a preferred pipeline for processing the voice. This is done at setup but you can change it in Settings > Voice Assistants 



A good description of these options are in the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhlIaBG3Ldo at around  2 minutes.

My experience is the performance of the speech recognition is far better with Nabu Casa Cloud (which requires a subscription) compared to the local processing options, though this may be due to my accent - It may work better for european and american  voices. There may be ways to tune the speech recognition engines but I have not explored them. The Cloud processing option is also significantly faster than the local processing.





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  .NET 3.5 prevents installation of Comfigurator
Posted by: slychiu - 05-16-2025, 07:34 AM - Forum: Comfigurator - Replies (1)

This affects new installations of Comfigurator on new PCs with new versions of Windows
Comfigurator installation requires .NET 3.5 to be installed, and will prompt for download and installation if it is not found on the PC.

When you try to install the downloaded .NET3.5 you may get a message \"a later version of .NET is already installed\" and this prevents you from going ahead with Comfigurator installation. If this happens go to Control Panel > programs and features.
Check the box for .NET Framework 3.5 shown below.


.NET 4.8 does not include .NET 3.5
The next version of Comfigurator will fix this problem or give instructions



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