Recent content by jbuehl

Re: Control your Jandy equipment from your PC with a $15 ada Hmm... Maybe you are right that it is an issue with firmware that doesn't support older panels. Looking at the probe messages which look like "1002 xx 00 yy 1003" I don't see any where xx is 08-0b which is the address of the panel...

Re: Control your Jandy equipment from your PC with a $15 ada VegasMike - Can you run aqualinkRS.py with debugData and debugRaw set to True and post the output of aqualink.log here?

Re: Control your Jandy equipment from your PC with a $15 ada I am currently running mine without the ground - just 2 wires - and it works fine. The picture I posted is from a while back and isn't how I have it connected. The ground and +5 seem to only be needed to supply power to remote...

Re: Control your Jandy equipment from your PC with a $15 ada OK, I have updated the pyaqualink project at https://github.com/ericbuehl/pyaqualink to be somewhat useful. The last time I updated it I had begun to implement a web server UI on top of the protocol, but I went in a different...

Re: Control your Jandy equipment from your PC with a $15 ada pyaqualink is broken. Let me try to fix it in the next day or so.

Re: Control your Jandy equipment from your PC with a $15 ada djwocky and VegasMike - which particular emulators are you talking about? djwocky - the Tx and Rx uses the same pair in the RS485 mode that Jandy is using, so if you can receive data then you will be able to transmit it. I don't...

Re: Control your Jandy equipment from your PC with a $15 ada djwocky - I just started looking at openHAB and it looks very interesting. I had noticed it a while back, but I didn't look into it at the time. If I like it I may think about converting some of my stuff to java. edit - I just...

Re: Control your Jandy equipment from your PC with a $15 ada djwocky - I am not familiar with the J-box, but here's what I think might be happening. There could be another command that they added later that is being sent to the 60 address that has the status. The 02 command contains what is...

Re: Control your Jandy equipment from your PC with a $15 ada Basically that's the model that I am using with my home control app. I have the Aqualink interface implemented underneath my control objects for the pool equipment. I have other objects for the rest of the stuff I am monitoring and...

Re: Control your Jandy equipment from your PC with a $15 ada If you get output from running it in the default mode, then your RS485 connection is good. If you don't get output, then run it in raw mode. and see what comes out. you should see a lot of the sequence "1002" which is the data that...

Re: Control your Jandy equipment from your PC with a $15 ada Check this out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1140 ... ute-serial. See if there is a file called serial.py in the directory you are running the program from and get rid of it.

Re: Control your Jandy equipment from your PC with a $15 ada That just happens to be the address of my SpaLink controller. This program just listens in on whatever conversations are happening between the Aqualink controller and other devices. Depending on what device(s) you have, things will...

Re: Control your Jandy equipment from your PC with a $15 ada Ah, I forgot you need the python serial module. Are you doing this on your RPi or windows? If it's the RPi, try this: # wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pip/pip-1.3.1.tar.gz # tar -xvf pip-1.3.1.tar.gz # cd pip-1.3.1 #...