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Re: Step by step guide: Visonic Powermax Pro integration
Posted: Monday 13 March 2017 8:48
by BornToKill
Hi,
You need to download the last commit from ayasystems.
It patches this segfault issue when opening zone.
PM me your email if you want latest zip.
Re: Step by step guide: Visonic Powermax Pro integration
Posted: Monday 13 March 2017 12:31
by stichx360
Hi, hoping someone can help me. Thanks for putting this together guys, great work.
I am a newbie with PI and coding so a lot of trial and error for me.
I’ve followed the guide but I’m getting stuck on step 3d when I try to run
root@raspberrypi:~/pmaxd$ ./pmaxd -fvvvvvvvv
(null):0 - file I/O error
I’ve read through the post and not sure how borntokill (who also had the issue) actually resolved this issue. He seemed to imply that it was a location issues and pmaxd.conf should be located in /etc/pmaxd/pmaxd.conf however that’s not how the guide reads and it’s not possible to create the pmaxed folder in /etc.? I have run strace and get the same issue as him….
munmap(0x76f32000, 73990) = 0
brk(0) = 0xa11000
brk(0xa32000) = 0xa32000
open("/etc/pmaxd/pmaxd.conf", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, "(null):0 - file I/O error\n", 26(null):0 - file I/O error
) = 26
exit_group(1) = ?
+++ exited with 1 +++
It may however be the cabling I have chosen. Instead of the guide process I had a powermax dual cable rs232, so this may we be the issue, this is connected to the Pi via a rs232/usb adapter using ch340. I did however run through step 2 and test the connection with the visonic interface driver and it seemed to work (I could not however arm/disarm the panel).
I have since ordered the usb ttl auto converter and will try the pc/ipn method as described in the guide.
Just wanted to see if I was doing something wrong other than the possible cabling issue, since I am NEWBIE.
http://www.cts-direct.net/visonic-power ... Ar3q8P8HAQ
Thanks
Re: Step by step guide: Visonic Powermax Pro integration
Posted: Monday 13 March 2017 13:33
by BornToKill
Hi,
open("/etc/pmaxd/pmaxd.conf", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
Mkdir -p /etc/pmaxd/
Then mv pmaxd.conf file in this folder.
Regards.
Re: Step by step guide: Visonic Powermax Pro integration
Posted: Monday 13 March 2017 20:37
by stichx360
Thanks borntokill, that did the trick. stuck on very next stage with starting main loop....................lol...
xpl_hub is running
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NOTICE: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 initLog:0058]Logging initialized
NOTICE: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 initLog:0059]Verbose level: 7
NOTICE: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 main:0417]Program started by User 1000
INFO: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 main:0419]setting SID
NOTICE: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 main:0451]Starting......
INFO: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 initSerialPort:0071]there are 2 device in your config file
INFO: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 initSerialPort:0085]opening /dev/ttyUSB0
I have 8 zone:
NOTICE: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 PmaxInit:0165]zone: 0, name: R.D.C.
NOTICE: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 PmaxInit:0165]zone: 1, name: Etage
NOTICE: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 PmaxInit:0165]zone: 2, name: Salon
NOTICE: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 PmaxInit:0165]zone: 3, name: Salle a manger
NOTICE: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 PmaxInit:0165]zone: 4, name: cuisine
NOTICE: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 PmaxInit:0165]zone: 5, name: porte garage
NOTICE: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 PmaxInit:0165]zone: 6, name: volet garage
NOTICE: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 PmaxInit:0165]zone: 7, name: detecteur incendie
DEBUG: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 sendBuffer:0174]Sending the following buffer to serial TTY
DEBUG: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 logBuffer:0157]BufferSize: 12
DEBUG: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 logBuffer:0158]Buffer: A2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43
DEBUG: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 calculChecksum:0167]checksum: 001A
DEBUG: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 sendBuffer:0183]result of serial write:: 15
DEBUG: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 sendBuffer:0174]Sending the following buffer to serial TTY
DEBUG: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 logBuffer:0157]BufferSize: 12
DEBUG: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 logBuffer:0158]Buffer: AB 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43
DEBUG: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 calculChecksum:0167]checksum: 000B
DEBUG: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 sendBuffer:0183]result of serial write:: 15
DEBUG: [Mon Mar 13 19:30:53 2017 main:0456]Sarting main loop....
Re: Step by step guide: Visonic Powermax Pro integration
Posted: Monday 13 March 2017 20:41
by BornToKill
Come in PM. You seem to be french
me too. Easiest to Help.
Re: Step by step guide: Visonic Powermax Pro integration
Posted: Monday 20 March 2017 10:32
by andersonherry
Informative! Your step by step guiding for Visonic Powermax Pro integration will be helpful. Thanks for sharing.
Re: Step by step guide: Visonic Powermax Pro integration
Posted: Tuesday 18 April 2017 15:03
by jelleeelco
BornToKill wrote:Hi,
You need to download the last commit from ayasystems.
It patches this segfault issue when opening zone.
PM me your email if you want latest zip.
Hi,
Thank you for your reply! I actually got to the same conclusion and completely forgot to check this topic...apologies. All is working now perfectly and have everything nicely integrated into Domoticz. I am now also able to use the sensors to trigger events, something I never dreamed off
Re: Step by step guide: Visonic Powermax Pro integration
Posted: Saturday 22 July 2017 13:52
by al300kr
Hi, can you control viconic chime on/off in domoticz?
thanks
Re: Step by step guide: Visonic Powermax Pro integration
Posted: Tuesday 01 August 2017 11:54
by jelleeelco
Does anyone else is having issues with pmaxd? It just stopped working at some point. I rebuild a new image to test, but also that one doesn't work. Everything is running as it should, but there doesn't seem to be a connection between the PI and the visonic. When I run it manually it just stops at ' Sarting Main loop...'
I tested even with a different PI, no difference. Tested with the serial connector linked to a windows pc, and from there everything worked.
Can it be that xPLL_Hub has changed?
Re: Step by step guide: Visonic Powermax Pro integration
Posted: Tuesday 22 August 2017 22:45
by BornToKill
Hi,
Same here since rpi-update has been done....
Investigating..
Re: Step by step guide: Visonic Powermax Pro integration
Posted: Wednesday 23 August 2017 16:35
by jelleeelco
Pfew, so glad you're replying... I think I have done the same thing (rpi-update) and of course with a new build it's the same...
Really can't figure out what's wrong... this is above my knowledge. It looks like the xPL is not communicating, but it's a wild guess.
Re: Step by step guide: Visonic Powermax Pro integration
Posted: Wednesday 23 August 2017 19:58
by BornToKill
OK,
So kernel 4.9.X broke something.
To downgrade 4.4.50 : rpi-update 52241088c1da59a359110d39c1875cda56496764
Reboot !
Enjoy
PS : I'm on Jessie (Raspbian)
Re: Step by step guide: Visonic Powermax Pro integration
Posted: Wednesday 23 August 2017 21:28
by jelleeelco
Ok mate... after helping me like that you're my mate, so....forgive me my familiarity
So how do I downgrade? I go to ssh, sudo rpi-update and then I enter that whole string of code?
Apologies if this is a stupid question....!!
Re: Step by step guide: Visonic Powermax Pro integration
Posted: Wednesday 23 August 2017 22:16
by BornToKill
PM your email.
Will be easier.
Re: Step by step guide: Visonic Powermax Pro integration
Posted: Wednesday 23 August 2017 22:30
by jelleeelco
Send!
Re: Step by step guide: Visonic Powermax Pro integration
Posted: Thursday 24 August 2017 10:03
by jelleeelco
Ok. Thanks to BornToKill it's sorted. As he said, the kernel update must have broken something. I don't know how I performed the kernel update, as the instruction rpi-update was not available.
So, this is what I did (well, what BortToKill asked me to do....and it worked). SSH into the pi and then:
(outcome should be Raspbian GNU/Linux 8 \n \l which means running Jessie)
This gives the kernel currently running, mine was: Linux raspberrypi 4.9.35-v7+ #1014 SMP Fri Jun 30 14:47:4
I didn't have rpi-update installed, so first I installed that:
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apt-get update
apt-get install rpi-update
and then downgrade the kernel by being root user:
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sudo su
rpi-update 52241088c1da59a359110d39c1875cda56496764
Then reboot and it worked!
All credits to BornToKill, I just followed his instructions via the email.
Re: Step by step guide: Visonic Powermax Pro integration
Posted: Thursday 24 August 2017 12:22
by BornToKill
happy to help the community!
Thanks for your reply.
Re: Step by step guide: Visonic Powermax Pro integration
Posted: Thursday 24 August 2017 18:39
by jelleeelco
You are right though that the lua script is breaking pmaxd... I get the same thing now.
What script are you running and how does domoticz then get the status?
Re: Step by step guide: Visonic Powermax Pro integration
Posted: Monday 13 November 2017 2:18
by Holland
Thanks guys
After an uptime of 6 months, I thought, maybe a good idea to update the pi to the latest version. Not....
Kernel 4.9 kills the pmaxd!!
So did; rpi-update 52241088c1da59a359110d39c1875cda56496764
And it's up and running again. Cool
Re: Step by step guide: Visonic Powermax Pro integration
Posted: Monday 13 November 2017 8:49
by BornToKill
Glad to help you !
