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I thought I\'d share my little project with the community. For the last couple of months I fiddled with an interface between Arduino and Comfort for the purpose of interfacing to DS18B20 sensors. From the attachments you can see the little board I made that can take four sensors and connect directly to Comfort via the RS485 bus.

My \'Arduino RIO\' as I call it, plugs into an Arduino UNO and has a passthrough for a LCD Shield. The idea is to have status and some basic configuration on the LCD but have a proper ComfortClient Plugin that can configure the device as Comfigurator has no idea what the new device is.

Once this passes all my testing I will build a standalone unit the size of a real RIO board. For now the UNO connected device is perfect for me to do the software and firmware side of things.

Cheers,
Ingo

PS. I had a longish post all typed up but then my browser crashed and I ended up with a short and to the point one - sorry.


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I thought I\'d share my little project with the community. For the last couple of months I fiddled with an interface between Arduino and Comfort for the purpose of interfacing to DS18B20 sensors. From the attachments you can see the little board I made that can take four sensors and connect directly to Comfort via the RS485 bus.

My \'Arduino RIO\' as I call it, plugs into an Arduino UNO and has a passthrough for a LCD Shield. The idea is to have status and some basic configuration on the LCD but have a proper ComfortClient Plugin that can configure the device as Comfigurator has no idea what the new device is.

Once this passes all my testing I will build a standalone unit the size of a real RIO board. For now the UNO connected device is perfect for me to do the software and firmware side of things.

Cheers,
Ingo

PS. I had a longish post all typed up but then my browser crashed and I ended up with a short and to the point one - sorry.


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To kick off the 3rd party Development area I am working on a Crestron module to interface with Comfort Via Ethernet or RS232.

Here is what I have working so far,

• Inital Login to UCM
  
• Keypad emulation (a touch screen based keypad, works the same as the real keypad without the audio at the moment)
  
• Security Mode feedback (to display in text on a touch panel which mode Comfort is in)
  
• Zone status (On, Off, S/C, O/C) (Currently on a plan of the house, lights which zone has been triggered in a room)
  
• Trigger any responce in Comforts 256 locations (comfort pro)
  
• Feedback into the Crestron when the phone rings or doorbell (db) is pressed. I currently use this to pause what ever I am watching on tv!)
  
• If engineer code is enabled or disabled

The next step is to compleate the following, (to do list)

• Set up a \'device poll\' join (in Crestron we just poll this join to query Comfort ie security mode, bypassed zones etc)
  
• Show zone status, bypassed etc and be able to set bypass / unbypass zones.
  
• Show the event log
  
• Show if voice messages are waiting
  
• Get Comfort voice / messaging to the touch panels
  
• Show current alarm state
  
• Show state of outputs

I am sure I will add to the to do list as I go along.

 

Regards


Dayle

 
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To kick off the 3rd party Development area I am working on a Crestron module to interface with Comfort Via Ethernet or RS232.

Here is what I have working so far,

• Inital Login to UCM
  
• Keypad emulation (a touch screen based keypad, works the same as the real keypad without the audio at the moment)
  
• Security Mode feedback (to display in text on a touch panel which mode Comfort is in)
  
• Zone status (On, Off, S/C, O/C) (Currently on a plan of the house, lights which zone has been triggered in a room)
  
• Trigger any responce in Comforts 256 locations (comfort pro)
  
• Feedback into the Crestron when the phone rings or doorbell (db) is pressed. I currently use this to pause what ever I am watching on tv!)
  
• If engineer code is enabled or disabled

The next step is to compleate the following, (to do list)

• Set up a \'device poll\' join (in Crestron we just poll this join to query Comfort ie security mode, bypassed zones etc)
  
• Show zone status, bypassed etc and be able to set bypass / unbypass zones.
  
• Show the event log
  
• Show if voice messages are waiting
  
• Get Comfort voice / messaging to the touch panels
  
• Show current alarm state
  
• Show state of outputs

I am sure I will add to the to do list as I go along.

 

Regards


Dayle

 
]]> https://www.comfortforums.com/thread-717.html Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:28:38 -0400 ]]> https://www.comfortforums.com/thread-717.html The UCM/Universal with RS232, RS485 or Ethernet Interface can be used to connect to 3rd party products
The Comfort serial protocol  can be requested from support@cytech.biz

Examples of special purpose UCMs where custom firmware has been developed is UCM/CBUS, UCM/EIB, UCM/Smartfit and UCM/GSM



]]> The UCM/Universal with RS232, RS485 or Ethernet Interface can be used to connect to 3rd party products
The Comfort serial protocol  can be requested from support@cytech.biz

Examples of special purpose UCMs where custom firmware has been developed is UCM/CBUS, UCM/EIB, UCM/Smartfit and UCM/GSM



]]> https://www.comfortforums.com/thread-44.html Mon, 15 May 2006 23:37:36 -0400 ]]> https://www.comfortforums.com/thread-44.html The Serial Command Set, available from [color=\"#0000ff\"]http://www.cytech-technology.com/techinfo.html[/color] , describes the UCM protocol.


EDIT
The link is at https://www.cytech.biz/serial_interface_protocol.html
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EDIT
The link is at https://www.cytech.biz/serial_interface_protocol.html
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