Powermax binding

flinken · October 13, 2016, 3:01pm

I have an issue with the enrollment of the openhab in the powermax pro. I used to have a real powerlink enrolled but that has been removed how ever i still get these errors:

2016-10-13 16:50:15 - message handled by class PowerMaxAckMessage:

Raw data = 0D02FD0A
type = 02 ( ACK )
2016-10-13 16:50:15 - powerMaxEventReceived(): received message DENIED
2016-10-13 16:50:15 - sendAck(): sending message 0D02000A
2016-10-13 16:50:15 - message handled by class PowerMaxDeniedMessage:
Raw data = 0D08F70A
type = 08 ( DENIED )
2016-10-13 16:50:15 - PowerMax alarm binding: openHAB Powerlink not enrolled
2016-10-13 16:50:15 - readSettings(4, 55, 55): missing data
2016-10-13 16:50:15 - PowerMax alarm binding: running in Standard mode

Any idea how to fix this issue?

dan12345 · October 14, 2016, 11:07am

try powering down the powermax pro (and removing the battery) then restarting. This fixed it for me. However it doesn’t work perfectly - every so often it drops out of Powerlink mode and I have to restart openHAB. Everything still works okay, so it’s mildly annoying rather than a real problem

Dan

flinken · October 14, 2016, 11:17am

I tried that. Even the hard reset with the jumpers but no luck. I guess i will just have to accept the standard mode.

Darren_Poulson · November 21, 2016, 3:59pm

So, new to openhab, and have just got openhab2 installed on a Pi. Figured out hue, zwave, and a bunch of other things and the last thing stopping me from moving from my vera is the powermax.

Installed the binding through the extensions menu, gone into configuration > bindings and added the tty port, gone to inbox and tried to add something, but it just gives nothing.

Any ideas? Been trying to hunt down logs to see if theres anything interesting in there, but even with log:set DEBUG org.openhab.binding.powermax, nothing is showing anywhere.

Lolodomo · November 21, 2016, 5:29pm

Look at the wiki page, I certainly explained how to setup the binding. You have to edit the file powermax.cfg that was created when you installed the binding and then restart OH.
Setting up the 1.x binding through Paper UI is something that has never worked well, I think.

Darren_Poulson · November 22, 2016, 12:59am

Ah, sorry.

All the other bindings that I’d used so far were configured through the Paper UI. Didn’t realise you had to still edit some things by file. Its a steep learning curve. The wiki page only mentions the openhab.cfg, but found the powermax.cfg once you’d mentioned it. Unless I’m also looking at the wrong wiki page…

Got the panel registered and can see the partition status, etc. Now to figure out how to read the sensors attached.

Cheers,

Darren.

Lolodomo · November 22, 2016, 7:04am

For information, I am using since few months a 2.0 version of my binding. it adds in particular the automatic discovery of sensors.
I need to find time to finish it and publish it.
I may provide the jar file for interested users that would like to test it.

BigCol · November 23, 2016, 6:10am

Happy to help test

dan12345 · November 23, 2016, 8:54am

and me!

Fredrik_Andersson · November 23, 2016, 6:50pm

Just installed openHAB2. I would be very happy to try out your 2.0.!

Darren_Poulson · November 23, 2016, 11:24pm

At the risk of turning this into a me 2 thread, I’m up for beta testing the new version. Just ordered a Pi3 and will be doing a rebuild of it all, with what I’ve learnt so far.

Phoenix-Blue · November 24, 2016, 9:43am

Hi,
Count me also in for testing the it on OH2.

scurb · November 24, 2016, 8:58pm

Aren’t we all interested :)? I am at least!

James_Hiscott · November 25, 2016, 2:21pm

Also interested in helping out

scurb · December 6, 2016, 7:50pm

I have a question, that I actually talked about at least a year ago I think But today, I made another test (OH2 and nightly release since a couple of days ago).

My question is how I could separate and figure out when the alarm is actually triggering an alarm. From what I can see, in state of Entry Delay, the “Powermax_partition_alarm” is set to ON (binding config: powermax=“partition_alarm”) just as it does when the alarm is actually triggering (for real). I first tried to get this working by using the “partition_arm_mode” state which are set to for example “Disarm”, “Armed”, “EntryDelay” - however, this state is set after the partition_alarm is set to ON. It does not feel good to add a delay timer just to “wait” for an eventually update of “partition_arm_mode”.

Below I have tested two scenarios:

First - EntryDelay is used - I enter the building and disarms the alarm via a keypad.

18:32:04.254 [INFO ] [marthome.event.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Powermax_partition_status changed from Away Exit Delay, Ready, Last 10 seconds to Armed Away, Ready, Status changed
18:32:04.265 [INFO ] [marthome.event.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Powermax_partition_armed changed from OFF to ON
18:32:19.237 [INFO ] [marthome.event.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Powermax_zone1_status2 changed from CLOSED to OPEN
18:32:19.248 [INFO ] [marthome.event.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Powermax_partition_status changed from Armed Away, Ready, Status changed to Entry Delay, Not ready, Open in Zone 1, Status changed, Alarm event
18:32:19.340 [INFO ] [marthome.event.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Powermax_partition_ready changed from ON to OFF
18:32:19.348 [INFO ] [marthome.event.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Powermax_partition_arm_mode changed from Armed to EntryDelay
18:32:32.357 [INFO ] [marthome.event.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Powermax_partition_status changed from Entry Delay, Not ready, Open in Zone 1, Status changed, Alarm event to Disarmed, Not ready, Status changed
18:32:32.369 [INFO ] [marthome.event.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Powermax_partition_alarm changed from ON to OFF
18:32:32.380 [INFO ] [marthome.event.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Powermax_partition_armed changed from ON to OFF
18:32:32.388 [INFO ] [marthome.event.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Powermax_partition_arm_mode changed from EntryDelay to Disarmed

And this is when I trigger an alarm

18:34:45.942 [INFO ] [marthome.event.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Powermax_zone5_status2 changed from CLOSED to OPEN
18:34:45.981 [INFO ] [marthome.event.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Powermax_partition_alarm changed from OFF to ON
18:34:45.991 [INFO ] [marthome.event.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Powermax_zone5_last_trip changed from 2016-12-06T16:58:34.000+0100 to 2016-12-06T18:34:45.000+0100
18:34:46.299 [INFO ] [marthome.event.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Powermax_partition_status changed from Armed Away, Not ready, Open in Zone 5, Alarm event to Armed Away, Not ready, Alert in memory
18:34:46.313 [INFO ] [marthome.event.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Powermax_panel_alert_in_mem changed from OFF to ON
18:34:46.327 [INFO ] [marthome.event.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Powermax_partition_alarm changed from ON to OFF
18:34:48.059 [INFO ] [marthome.event.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Powermax_zone5_status changed from ON to OFF
18:34:48.096 [INFO ] [marthome.event.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Powermax_partition_status changed from Armed Away, Not ready, Alert in memory to Armed Away, Ready, Alert in memory, Closed in Zone 5
18:34:48.106 [INFO ] [marthome.event.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Powermax_partition_ready changed from OFF to ON
18:34:59.756 [INFO ] [marthome.event.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Powermax_partition_status changed from Armed Away, Ready, Alert in memory, Closed in Zone 5 to Disarmed, Ready, Alert in memory, Status changed
18:34:59.766 [INFO ] [marthome.event.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Powermax_partition_armed changed from ON to OFF

Anyone that can point me into right direction here?

Best regards,
Patrik

dan12345 · December 6, 2016, 9:44pm

I just have a rule catching when Powermax_panel_alert_in_mem changes from OFF to ON.

regards,

Dan

scurb · December 6, 2016, 9:55pm

Could of course be the simpliest solution

I actually would be more happy with not firing “Powermax_partition_alarm” during “EntryDelay”-state. But from what I understood, that is not a possible solution.

dan12345 · December 6, 2016, 10:17pm

That’s my understanding too.

But it ends up working nicely - Powermax_partition_alarm triggers my “Someone has entered the flat” push notification, and then pushes a series of images from a security camera so I can see if it’s my mother-in-law or an actual burglar. Powermax_panel_alert_in_mem triggers everything going properly crazy - alarms, notifications, lights flashing, TV on…

Dan

scurb · December 7, 2016, 8:26am

Yes, exactly - perfect

I’ll continue to try it out by using it that way.

dan12345 · December 18, 2016, 5:26pm

I have a funny problem with OH2 and the legacy OH1.8 powermax binding. About 2/3 of the time I start OH2, I get regular errors as follows:

PowerMax alarm binding: serial connection (/dev/usb_serial): disconnected

The other 1/3 of the time it works fine, in Powerlink mode. I didn’t have this issue with OH1.8

Is anyone else experiencing this?

Dan