Home automation: BTicino, OpenWebNet, SCS bus

Jedi001

Hi guys,
did you somebody success with sending commands to Bticino Classe 300x? (c300x)
I'm able to connect to port 20000 and send few commands like:
device diag:
s: *#1013**1##
dev info:
*#13**0##

but when I try commands to door locks then response is always '*#*0##'
I'm trying:
s: *8*19*21##
s: *8*20*21##

I decompiled also the original application, but they send it through SIP

m4rky_m4rk

The door lock actuator in my 300x setup has its own BUS address, so I can just send a command direct to open the door, or use the 300x, or phone app.

m4rky_m4rk

Update on my Openhab2 trial and the BTicino binding.... The binding for BTicino worked without much effort and I was able control BUS items from Openhab PaperUI. I also successfully created a rule via Rule config file editing and also via the experimental menu driven rule creation. So called Next gen Rule engine:

Next-Gen Rules - openHAB 2 - Empowering the Smart Home

The rule enabled openhab to send a voice announcement from a text file whenever a selected switch changed state. Cool .. Like Jarvis in Iron man   The phone App was also OK and didn't require any effort to get working. But....
VoiceRSS (text to speech web service) didn't work with my Logitech Squeezebox devices (Touch and Radio). I also tried it on the latest Squeezlite I have running on a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian Stretch. It still didn't work.  Possibly a known problem with short mp3 files. I need to check the issue some more. However, the voice announcements did work in my browser.Status updates of BUS items only worked intermittently. It seems its known for this to be unreliable and update is planned to fix this. The binding developer responded despite my obvious noob questions : [BTicino/OpenWebNet] New Binding: BTicino / OpenWebNet 2.0 binding ready for testingAt the moment the Binding only controls switches but more is coming.I am now thinking of buying either Google Home or Amazon Alexa speaker. Not sure which if any yet. Then it should be possible to get an voice announcement when something I wanted to be alerted to changed on the BUS. eg garage electric door moving

massi00

Hey there, happy to find you here as well!
I also have installed a Google Home at home and works like a charm with openHAB plus the new BTicino binding.
I really can recommend to do the same: it's very very funny to control items with you voice, and so far no other (free) solution is available to work with older BTicino Gateways...

Anybody wants to help with some good testing of the new OH2 binding?
Would you be available to send some of your logs with DEBUG details?

Bye

m4rky_m4rk

Hi Massi, Welcome

Please help get the word out that there is a small but growing group of users here and we can chat freely.

What was your reason for choosing Google Home over the Echo?

I haven't yet explored voice commands but plan to when I get one of these devices. For now I am just checking out the possibilities.

When will the next update of the BTicino binding be released?When do expect to able to add shutter control?  I am especially interested in using my zone temperature probes for logging the data. Do you plan on adding contact states at some point?

Jedi001

Thanks for asnwer
I'm a little newbie in this, but you need another device to communicate over the bticino bus, right?
Because I have only this C300X, which is connected to wires of building system, and other devices are not under my control.

I found the port 20000 have probably only cofiguration purpose, I'm not still able to send through it anything to the bus. Like open door locks.
I'm now trying decompile and analyse the firmware, but it is quite hard.

Maybe I will get work the ssh daemon, but there is root password, which I do not know And I'm not able to find it on inet :-/

m4rky_m4rk

You need a gateway then you can send commands to the BUS. There are various devices that can be used as gateways.

I wanted to do more with the 300x set up but didn't succeed. It seems to be done via USB. See this thread if you have any ideas:
BTicino MyHome bus: Classe 300x & SFERA video door entry

m4rky_m4rk

That bit had me concerned !!!.... Why do you want access the BUS if you only have the video door control yourself and the rest are devices in a shared building... or have I misread your post?

Jedi001

Because I want to open the doors to building by my automation system, and not only by the C300X or by mobile app. I also want to save picture of the one who is ringing there.

m4rky_m4rk

If enabled the 300x can save video messages. It has an answer machine option. So I assume you want to save an image to a computer somehow?