Not able to find versions of files

[ofirda]

First - thank you for the development @tikismoke , I am left over with over 20 devices running on PLC and this is one of the last few items left on my HA list :)

I had an issue with the manifest file, it missed the version, so I added it, but now I have the issue of unmatched versions of pyserial and pyudev

{ "domain": "plcbus", "name": "Plcbus integration", "version": "0.0.2", "documentation": "https://github.com/tikismoke/home-assistant-plcbus", "dependencies": [], "codeowners": ["@Tikismoke"], "requirements": [ "pyserial==3.4", "pyudev==0.22.0" ] }

Unable to install package pyserial==3.4: ERROR: Cannot install pyserial==3.4 because these package versions have conflicting dependencies.

Unable to install package pyudev==0.22.0: ERROR: Cannot install pyudev==0.22.0 because these package versions have conflicting dependencies.

Any idea how I get these versions into my HA setup?

I am running HAOS on windows, using VirtualBox, I can access the HA CLI, I am not sure how to install these python files to start my PLC USB device and therefore the rest of the PLC clients.

[tikismoke]

Try to update dev by hand.
Sorry no more PLC us for me.

PR will be welcome for next if you succeed 😉

[ofirda]

Thanks @tikismoke I have read you dismissed it already (you did right ;-))
What do you mean "update dev by hand" - download / install the version you were working with? can this be done via the HA UI by running a python script with a specific command?

[tikismoke]

Pip install upgrade pyudev and pyserial, look version and update manifest/dependency.

[ofirda]

Thanks, I assumed that, just cant run PIP (or any python command) on the Home Assistant OS (running as an image on VirtualBox linux VM)
Therefore I cant even start to dev by hand
Would be happy to find some reference to handle this

[ofirda]

@tikismoke I am happy to say that you made me challenge myself :-) and get it working!! Thank you

I had to do few things like (for the sake of others)
(1) change SwitchDevice to SwitchEntity (I need to read more on how I can push that to Git)
(2) open Com4 on VirtualBox and use the Device Host connection
(3) Use the device device: "/dev/ttyS3" (it didn't find it on USB)
(4) install pydev and pyserial and remove their version number from the manifest

I am left with 2 open issues, hoping to resolve / help

() How to poll the status of the device? when someone switched the physical light button it goes out of sync (in HomeSeer there was a "poll" function that took care of the sync)
() The second time I ran it I got this error: Platform plcbus does not generate unique IDs. ID PlcbusSwitch_FF_A3 already exists - ignoring switch.plcbusswitch_ff_a3
Does it mean that I should remove the switch now from configuraiton.yaml as it was all found?

(*)BTW - even though I put just 4 units [A1, A2, A3, A4] for some reason all my units were found, is that ok?

[ofirda]

Found the answers
polling is done every minute
no need to add unit codes, just house is enough (make sure to delete old entries in entities beforehand)
managed to do it via USB0, need to install vbox extensions for that

Thanks @tikismoke for amazing work!

[tikismoke]

Found the answers polling is done every minute no need to add unit codes, just house is enough (make sure to delete old entries in entities beforehand) managed to do it via USB0, need to install vbox extensions for that

Thanks @tikismoke for amazing work!

Could you make a PullRequest on GitHub to solve dependency issue?

[tikismoke]

Keep opens since it need to be done in code

[ofirda]

OK @tikismoke I need to do this (never tried before)
BTW - if I recall correctly, when I had this in HomeSeer then polling was just 1 signal across the house and it could interpret the status of all devices of the house
Here the device is sending status request per device and therefor every minute you hear ~20 bzzzz from the serial adapter its annoying :-(
Do you guys have it the same?

[tikismoke]

@ofirda indeed. I had to have only 5/6 device and my adapter was hide under the stairs near my Dell server so never eat it more thant that but I can understand it's annoying in call environment.
If I remember I've already add this in the Todo. But as I could no more test anything I will not do it.
https://github.com/tikismoke/home-assistant-plcbus/projects/1#card-38017647
But it's mark as done.... So do no more remember what is don or not.

[ofirda]

It does look like you did that in code, but I think I am missing something, you are using a parameter called housecode, which isn't defined in configuraiton.yaml (I only have user_code as "FF" in my case, my house code BTW is "A")

The PLCBUS interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLCBUS does mention that its needed for the address, do you think it should it be defined in the config as well?

the code is -

@property def should_poll(self): """No need to poll. entity update is done by get_all_on_id_pulse.""" return False

and then

`def get_all_on_id(self, housecode, usercode):
'''
Fastpoll the housecode and return every on plugins
@param usercode : User code of item (must be 'H' syntax between 0 to
F) Without device index
@param housecode : one or more housecodes
'''
onlist = []
self._valid_house(housecode)
if (len(housecode)>1):
_LOGGER.debug("housecode length >1 keep only first characters")
housecode = housecode[0]

    self.send("GET_ALL_ON_ID_PULSE", housecode + "1", usercode)
    response = self._ser_handler.get_from_answer_queue()
    if(response):
        _LOGGER.debug ("Hoora response received", response)
        data = int(response[10:14], 16)
        for i in range(0, 16):
            if data >> i & 1:
                onlist.append(housecode + str(self._unitcodes[i]))
    _LOGGER.debug ("on : %s", onlist)
    return onlist

`