Quigg Protocol for rfcontroljs

marcel

Hello,

Would it be possible to implement the Quigg/Globaltronics rf protocol (http://wiki.pilight.org/doku.php/quigg) in rfcontroljs? I want to switch from pilight completely to pimatic(-homeduino), but I have no experience in programming.
I had a look at the instructions on how to define new protocols, but I don’t know how to implement the header and stuff like the checksum bits or whatever this might be at the end of the protocol (bit 19).

Cheers,
Marcel

Icesory

First, this post should be in “Development” -> "RF Protocols"
I have started a implementation. But can you pleas post the debug output from homduino?
Eventually we have a problem with the footer. In pilight it is saved as 81000ms but in Homeduino we use a 16bit unsigned integer array to store the timings. The biggest number for 16 bit is around 65000.

jenzmann

Hi,
i also have some controls, which use the Quigg/Globaltronics protocol. So i could post my debug output from homeduino:

When i press an “On-Button” for some time:

debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 689, 1356, 81118 ] 001100110101001010101010101010110010101102 
18:29:12 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: "RF receive 689 1356 81118 0 0 0 0 0 001100110101001010101010101010110010101102"
18:29:12 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 672, 1374, 81144 ] 001100110101001010101010101010110010101102
18:29:12 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: "RF receive 672 1374 81144 0 0 0 0 0 001100110101001010101010101010110010101102"
18:29:11 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 677, 1368, 81151 ] 001100110101001010101010101010110010101102
18:29:11 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: "RF receive 677 1368 81151 0 0 0 0 0 001100110101001010101010101010110010101102"
18:29:09 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 671, 1371, 81156 ] 001100110101001010101010101010110010101102
18:29:09 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: "RF receive 671 1371 81156 0 0 0 0 0 001100110101001010101010101010110010101102"
18:29:08 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 682, 1363, 81112 ] 001100110101001010101010101010110010101102
18:29:08 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: "RF receive 682 1363 81112 0 0 0 0 0 001100110101001010101010101010110010101102"

When i press an “Off-Button” for some time:

 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 678, 1367, 81128 ] 001100110101001010101010101010101010101012
18:30:15 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: "RF receive 678 1367 81128 0 0 0 0 0 001100110101001010101010101010101010101012"
18:30:14 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 676, 1368, 81169 ] 001100110101001010101010101010101010101012
18:30:14 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: "RF receive 676 1368 81169 0 0 0 0 0 001100110101001010101010101010101010101012"
18:30:14 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 677, 1366, 81196 ] 001100110101001010101010101010101010101012
18:30:14 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: "RF receive 677 1366 81196 0 0 0 0 0 001100110101001010101010101010101010101012"
18:30:14 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 679, 1362, 81156 ] 001100110101001010101010101010101010101012
18:30:14 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: "RF receive 679 1362 81156 0 0 0 0 0 001100110101001010101010101010101010101012"
18:30:13 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 677, 1365, 81172 ] 001100110101001010101010101010101010101012

When i press the “Dimm-Up-Button” for some time:

debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 679, 1365, 81100 ] 001100110101001010101010101010101100110012
18:31:33 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: "RF receive 679 1365 81100 0 0 0 0 0 001100110101001010101010101010101100110012"
18:31:32 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 680, 1363, 81121 ] 001100110101001010101010101010101100110012
18:31:32 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: "RF receive 680 1363 81121 0 0 0 0 0 001100110101001010101010101010101100110012"
18:31:32 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 677, 1366, 81128 ] 001100110101001010101010101010101100110012
18:31:32 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: "RF receive 677 1366 81128 0 0 0 0 0 001100110101001010101010101010101100110012"
18:31:32 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 680, 1365, 81079 ] 001100110101001010101010101010101100110012
18:31:32 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: "RF receive 680 1365 81079 0 0 0 0 0 001100110101001010101010101010101100110012"
18:31:31 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 669, 1374, 81107 ] 001100110101001010101010101010101100110012
18:31:31 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: "RF receive 669 1374 81107 0 0 0 0 0 001100110101001010101010101010101100110012"
18:31:31 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 672, 1374, 81074 ] 001100110101001010101010101010101100110012
18:31:31 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: "RF receive 672 1374 81074 0 0 0 0 0 001100110101001010101010101010101100110012"

When i press a “Dimm-Down-Button” for some time:

debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 682, 1361, 81139 ] 001100110101001010101010101010110100110102
18:32:13 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: "RF receive 682 1361 81139 0 0 0 0 0 001100110101001010101010101010110100110102"
18:32:12 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 678, 1365, 81146 ] 001100110101001010101010101010110100110102
18:32:12 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: "RF receive 678 1365 81146 0 0 0 0 0 001100110101001010101010101010110100110102"
18:32:12 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 682, 1362, 81152 ] 001100110101001010101010101010110100110102
18:32:12 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: "RF receive 682 1362 81152 0 0 0 0 0 001100110101001010101010101010110100110102"
18:32:11 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 679, 1363, 81129 ] 001100110101001010101010101010110100110102
18:32:11 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: "RF receive 679 1363 81129 0 0 0 0 0 001100110101001010101010101010110100110102"
18:32:10 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 681, 1363, 81124 ] 001100110101001010101010101010110100110102
18:32:10 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: "RF receive 681 1363 81124 0 0 0 0 0 001100110101001010101010101010110100110102"
18:32:10 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 683, 1359, 81130 ] 001100110101001010101010101010110100110102
18:32:10 debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: "RF receive 683 1359 81130 0 0 0 0 0 001100110101001010101010101010110100110102"

Hope this helps!

Icesory

Do you use an arduino? Or the GPIO driver?

jenzmann

The GPIO Driver.

Icesory

Huston / @sweetpi we have a problem.
The Arduino and the raspberry implements an Integer variable different.

Icesory

We can implement the protocol, this isn’t a problem. But it would only work with the gpio driver at the moment.

jenzmann

For me it would be very nice, if the switch would work with the GPIO Driver. I think later i will work with an Arduino, but for now it would be great!

sweetpi

@Icesory I’ve opened an issue for that with an idea: pimatic/RFControl#6

Icesory

The protocol is now in the development branch of rfcontroljs.
But at the moment It is only working with the GPIO driver.

jenzmann

Thank you for that. I try to implement the protocol, but i have some problems: At first i changed the controller.js in the lib folder. After that i added the switch13.js in lib/protocols. But you have 4 changed files, but in my Homeduino-folder i cannot find the controller.coffee in src and the switch13.coffee in src/protocols. I cannot find folders called like that. So i started pimatic without that two changes. I can add a Button for the switch, but when i will turn it on it comes to a failure: “Ups…object has no method create ‘paritybit’” or something like that. I can see the message just for a little moment. Can you tell me, how the config.json for this protocol have to look like (in the devices section)?

Icesory

You need the helper.js too.
The coffee files are the sources and this are not needed for you.

You made it right. copy this one file an it should work.

jenzmann

The helper.js is already in the /lib folder.

Icesory

my version of this file. I have added a new function to create the parity bit.

https://github.com/pimatic/rfcontroljs/commit/525f1af7f2d02305df92171ad99a6866ad02947f

jenzmann

Okay now it works perfect! Thank you so much!

jenzmann

Did you implement the Dimmer functionality too? Does that work with a HomeduinoRFButtonsDevice with a Dimm-up Button and a Dimm-down Button?

Icesory

You cant use the DimmerDevice because, the protocol don´t support a real dimmer value.
But a ButtonsDevice should already work.

{
  "id": "homeduino-buttons",
  "name": "Buttons",
  "class": "HomeduinoRFButtonsDevice",
  "buttons": [
    {
      "id": "button-up",
      "text": "Bright Up",
      "protocols": [{
        "name": "switch13",
        "options": {
          "unit": 0,
          "id": 42,
          "state": true,
          "dimm": true
        }
      }]
    },
    {
      "id": "button-down",
      "text": "Bright Down",
      "protocols": [{
        "name": "switch13",
        "options": {
          "unit": 0,
          "id": 42,
          "state": false,
          "dimm": true
        }
      }]
    }
  ]
}

jenzmann

hm that does not work. is the quigg_switch protocol from pilight the basis for the switch13 protocol? With the quigg_switch protocol i could never control the switch so that the dimmer works. I could only switch them on and off. In pilight 6 they have new quigg protocols: quigg_gt7000 for switching and quigg_screen for the dimmer function. With that (quigg_screen) i can already dim my switch. To get this to work, I have a normal button_device in pimatic and sending “sudo pilight-send -p quigg_screen -u 0 -i 1000 -t” commands with pimatic-shell-execute, when i press a button. For bright down, you need just a “-f” instead of “-t”. Could it be the problem, that you use the quigg_switch protocol as the basis for switches and dimmer?

jenzmann

Hm pilight-receive receives a quigg_screen protocol, when i am using the dim buttons with the switch13 protocol. So it ist correct. I’ll have to check my config.

jenzmann

Okay that is interesting: When i send a dim-command with pilight-send, the light bright up and pilight-receive give me this output:

{
	"origin": "sender",
	"protocol": "quigg_screen",
	"message": {
		"id": 1500,
		"unit": 1,
		"state": "up"
	},
	"repeat": 1,
	"uuid": "0000-00-00-56-7263e9"
}

And when i am using the dim_buttons with the switch13 protocol, the light is not bright up and i get this output from pilight-receive:

{
	"message": {
		"id": 1500,
		"unit": 1,
		"state": "up"
	},
	"origin": "receiver",
	"protocol": "quigg_screen",
	"uuid": "0000-00-00-56-7263e9",
	"repeats": 1
}
{
	"message": {
		"id": 1500,
		"unit": 1,
		"state": "up"
	},
	"origin": "receiver",
	"protocol": "quigg_screen",
	"uuid": "0000-00-00-56-7263e9",
	"repeats": 2
}
{
	"message": {
		"id": 1500,
		"unit": 1,
		"state": "up"
	},
	"origin": "receiver",
	"protocol": "quigg_screen",
	"uuid": "0000-00-00-56-7263e9",
	"repeats": 3
}
{
	"message": {
		"id": 1500,
		"unit": 1,
		"state": "up"
	},
	"origin": "receiver",
	"protocol": "quigg_screen",
	"uuid": "0000-00-00-56-7263e9",
	"repeats": 4
}
{
	"message": {
		"id": 1500,
		"unit": 1,
		"state": "up"
	},
	"origin": "receiver",
	"protocol": "quigg_screen",
	"uuid": "0000-00-00-56-7263e9",
	"repeats": 5
}
{
	"message": {
		"id": 1500,
		"unit": 1,
		"state": "up"
	},
	"origin": "receiver",
	"protocol": "quigg_screen",
	"uuid": "0000-00-00-56-7263e9",
	"repeats": 6
}
{
	"message": {
		"id": 1500,
		"unit": 1,
		"state": "up"
	},
	"origin": "receiver",
	"protocol": "quigg_screen",
	"uuid": "0000-00-00-56-7263e9",
	"repeats": 7
}

So the protocol seems to be identical. But pimatic sends 7 repeats and pilight just 1. Is this the problem, why the dimmer not react?