Powermax binding

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OK, I’ve reminded myself how I turned off the beeps:

From the panel: installer mode -> define panel -> 11 trouble beeps

then this can be disable beeps, enable beeps, off at night. I have it disabled.

Have I just saved your marriage?

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I think I’m forever indebted to you lol.

Thanks Dan

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Thanks @BigCol that would be great.

Didn’t get chance to mess around with it last weekend, hoping I have some time this weekend.

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I have a PowerMax Pro Part with partitions disabled. When I toggle the switch get_event_log it indeed retrieves the latest events, however after that it crashes with:

Exception in thread “Thread-29” java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -113
at org.openhab.binding.powermax.internal.message.PowerMaxEventLogMessage.toString(PowerMaxEventLogMessage.java:176)
at org.openhab.binding.powermax.internal.message.PowerMaxBaseMessage.handleMessage(PowerMaxBaseMessage.java:114)
at org.openhab.binding.powermax.internal.message.PowerMaxEventLogMessage.handleMessage(PowerMaxEventLogMessage.java:101)
at org.openhab.binding.powermax.internal.PowerMaxBinding.powerMaxEventReceived(PowerMaxBinding.java:548)
at org.openhab.binding.powermax.internal.connector.PowerMaxConnector.handleIncomingMessage(PowerMaxConnector.java:90)
at org.openhab.binding.powermax.internal.connector.PowerMaxReaderThread.run(PowerMaxReaderThread.java:134)
at org.openhab.binding.powermax.internal.connector.PowerMaxSerialConnector$SerialReaderThread.run(PowerMaxSerialConnector.java:153)

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Updated configuration for the binding (unfortunately I cannot edit my old messages). There is a new setting: autoSyncTime

################################### PowerMax Binding ##################################

# the serial port to use for connecting to the PowerMax alarm system
# e.g. COM1 for Windows and /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyUSB0 for Linux
powermax:serialPort=/dev/ttyUSB0

# the IP address and port to use for connecting to the PowerMax alarm system
#powermax:ip=
#powermax:tcpPort=

# The delay in minutes to reset a motion detection (optional, defaults to 3)
#powermax:motionOffDelay=3

# Enable or disable arming the PowerMax alarm system from openHAB
# For security reason, this feature is disabled by default (false)
powermax:allowArming=true

# Enable or disable disarming the PowerMax alarm system from openHAB
# For security reason, this feature is disabled by default (false)
#powermax:allowDisarming=false

# The PIN code to use for arming/disarming the PowerMax alarm system from openHAB
# Not required except when Powerlink mode cannot be used
#powermax:pinCode=

# Force the standard mode rather than trying using the Powerlink mode
# (optional, defaults to false)
#powermax:forceStandardMode=false

# Automatic sync time at openHAB startup (optional, defaults to false)
powermax:autoSyncTime=true

################################################################################################
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Updated items (example).
Please note that the last version of the binding displays in the logs, at startup, what you could define as items.

Group GPowerMax "Alarm"

String Powermax_partition_status "Partition status [%s]" (GPowerMax) {powermax="partition_status"}
Switch Powermax_partition_ready "Partition ready" (GPowerMax) {powermax="partition_ready", autoupdate="false"}
Switch Powermax_partition_bypass "Partition bypass" (GPowerMax) {powermax="partition_bypass", autoupdate="false"}
Switch Powermax_partition_alarm "Partition alarm" (GPowerMax) {powermax="partition_alarm", autoupdate="false"}
Switch Powermax_panel_trouble "Panel trouble" (GPowerMax) {powermax="panel_trouble", autoupdate="false"}
Switch Powermax_panel_alert_in_mem "Panel alert in memory" (GPowerMax) {powermax="panel_alert_in_memory", autoupdate="false"}
Switch Powermax_partition_armed "Partition armed" (GPowerMax) {powermax="partition_armed", autoupdate="false"}
String Powermax_partition_arm_mode "Partition arm mode [%s]" (GPowerMax) {powermax="partition_arm_mode", autoupdate="false"}

Switch Powermax_zone1_status "Zone 1 status" (GPowerMax) {powermax="zone_status:1", autoupdate="false"}
Contact Powermax_zone1_status2 "Zone 1 status [MAP(fr.map):%s]" (GPowerMax) {powermax="zone_status:1"}
DateTime Powermax_zone1_last_trip "Zone 1 last trip [%1$tH:%1$tM]" (GPowerMax) {powermax="zone_last_trip:1"}
Switch Powermax_zone1_bypassed "Zone 1 bypassed" (GPowerMax) {powermax="zone_bypassed:1", autoupdate="false"}
Switch Powermax_zone1_armed "Zone 1 armed" (GPowerMax) {powermax="zone_armed:1", autoupdate="false"}
Switch Powermax_zone1_low_battery "Zone 1 low battery" (GPowerMax) {powermax="zone_low_battery:1", autoupdate="false"}

Switch Powermax_get_event_log "Event log" (GPowerMax) {powermax="get_event_log", autoupdate="false"}
String Powermax_event_log_1 "Event log 1 [%s]" (GPowerMax) {powermax="event_log:1"}
String Powermax_event_log_2 "Event log 2 [%s]" (GPowerMax) {powermax="event_log:2"}
String Powermax_event_log_3 "Event log 3 [%s]" (GPowerMax) {powermax="event_log:3"}
String Powermax_event_log_4 "Event log 4 [%s]" (GPowerMax) {powermax="event_log:4"}
String Powermax_event_log_5 "Event log 5 [%s]" (GPowerMax) {powermax="event_log:5"}

Switch Powermax_download_setup "Setup" (GPowerMax) {powermax="download_setup", autoupdate="false"}

String Powermax_panel_mode "Panel mode [%s]" (GPowerMax) {powermax="panel_mode"}
String Powermax_panel_type "Panel type [%s]" (GPowerMax) {powermax="panel_type"}
String Powermax_panel_eeprom "EPROM [%s]" (GPowerMax) {powermax="panel_eprom"}
String Powermax_panel_software "Software version [%s]" (GPowerMax) {powermax="panel_software"}
String Powermax_panel_serial "Serial [%s]" (GPowerMax) {powermax="panel_serial"}

Switch Powermax_PGM_status "PGM status" (GPowerMax) {powermax="PGM_status", autoupdate="false"}

Switch Powermax_X10_1_status "X10 1 status" (GPowerMax) {powermax="X10_status:1", autoupdate="false"}
String Powermax_X10_1_status2 "X10 1 status [%s]" (GPowerMax) {powermax="X10_status:1", autoupdate="false"}
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Updated sitempa (example).
Please note that the last version of the binding displays in the logs, at startup, what you could define in sitemap.

Text label="Security" icon="lock" {
        Switch item=Powermax_partition_armed mappings=[OFF="Disarmed", ON="Armed"]
        Switch item=Powermax_partition_arm_mode mappings=[Disarmed="Disarmed", Stay="Armed Home", Armed="Armed Away"] valuecolor=[=="Armed"="green",=="Stay"="orange"]
        
        Switch item=Powermax_get_event_log mappings=[ON="Refresh"]
        Switch item=Powermax_download_setup mappings=[ON="Download"]
        
        Switch item=Powermax_X10_1_status2 mappings=[OFF="Off", ON="On", DIM="Dim", BRIGHT="Bright"]

        Group item=GPowerMax label="Alarm"
    }
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I just updated a new version. Same link to download it: http://lg.hc.free.fr/openHAB/org.openhab.binding.powermax-1.7.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

Additional features:

  • fix for crash mentioned by @renes
  • automatic sync time (new setting available to enable it). it happens when setup is downloaded, that is when starting openHAB
  • new item to download setup - the only usage at this time for the normal user would be to force sync time
  • help for defining items and sitemap through examples logged at openHAB startup.
  • special message handling for PowerMaster

@renes: let me know if it solved your crash.

This version is almost a final version. My TODO list is largely reduced now. My main last thing to add is something that would show the state of sirens.

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@Lolodomo great work by the way!!! Tested your latest version but I still get the exception with a slightly different stacktrace now:

Exception in thread “Thread-29” java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -113
at org.openhab.binding.powermax.internal.message.PowerMaxEventLogMessage.handleMessage(PowerMaxEventLogMessage.java:121)
at org.openhab.binding.powermax.internal.PowerMaxBinding.powerMaxEventReceived(PowerMaxBinding.java:577)
at org.openhab.binding.powermax.internal.connector.PowerMaxConnector.handleIncomingMessage(PowerMaxConnector.java:90)
at org.openhab.binding.powermax.internal.connector.PowerMaxReaderThread.run(PowerMaxReaderThread.java:134)
at org.openhab.binding.powermax.internal.connector.PowerMaxSerialConnector$SerialReaderThread.run(PowerMaxSerialConnector.java:153)

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@renes: sorry for my stupidity, I fixed in one place (toString method) and not in the other place (handleMessage method) ! Please try again with the new uploaded jar file. I hope that it is ok this time.

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That’s interesting. Mine is with partitions enabled and event logs are not correctly retrieved.
Let me know if it works well with partitions disabled.

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@Lolodomo thanks! That solved the issue. Have a good new years eve.

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@Lolodomo yes with partitions disabled it works like expected, eg. most recent event is at position 1 and it correctly populates until position 250.

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Logging examples for defining items is a brilliant feature - thank you. Might be helpful to be able to switch it off in openhab.cfg, so the log isn’t unnecessarily cluttered once everything is running properly.

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unfortunately the binding has stopped working for me with openhab 1.8.0 - I get the following in the logs:

22:38:27.489 INFO  o.o.b.p.i.m.PowerMaxCommDriver[:139]- PowerMax alarm binding: open connection using Serial port /dev/usb_serial
22:38:27.759 INFO  o.o.b.p.i.c.PowerMaxSerialConnector[:91]- open(): No Such Port Exception: null
22:38:27.760 INFO  o.o.b.p.i.PowerMaxBinding[:216]- PowerMax alarm binding: reconnection failed

any help would be appreciated!

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OK - I can answer my question. The update overwrote my /etc/init.d/openhab file, hence my symlinks to the USB/serial ports were lost. Just needed to update this and everything works.

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is the source code available for this?

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Not yet but it is my intention to publish it.

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great. glad to take a look at it. do you know if it works with 2.0 yet?

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It was but as almost no 1.x binding is now working in beta 1, probably it does not work anymore. I have not yet tested since beta 1 was released.
By the way, my intention is to create a 2.0 binding in a second time.