I am using the new Serial Button Binding:
https://docs.openhab.org/addons/bindings/serialbutton/readme.html
I have a thing setup:
serialbutton:button:myButton "myButton" [ port="COM4" ]
I see the thing initialising in the event log:
- 'serialbutton:button:myButton' changed from UNINITIALIZED to INITIALIZING
- 'serialbutton:button:myButton' changed from INITIALIZING to ONLINE
I have a USB to Serial adaptor plugged in, I am running Windows 10 and in Device Manager I see the adaptor has been assigned COM4
I have an RS232 min tester plugged into the adaptor and flying leads from the other end.
My mini tester shows the following:
RD - off (zero voltage)
TD - red (negative voltage)
RTS - red (negative voltage)
DTR - green (positive voltage)
all others off
If I short pin 2 and 7 (RD and RTS) then it pulls RD to negative (red) but no event is triggered in events.log.
I have tried with another USB to serial adaptor and I have the same problem.
If I connect my mini tester to an adaptor on a COM port that has no SerialButton thing assigned to it then the DTR ‘Data Terminal Ready’ LED is red so I assume that the binding is correctly listening on COM4 it just doesn’t seem to be registering the short.
I assumed that the binding may be waiting for TRS to be pulled high but obviously connecting it to RTS as per the instructions is not achieving this.
What am I doing wrong??
Thanks