pimatic-homeduino net (TCP/IP) support

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The current homeduino project only supports connecting the Arduino to Pimatic using a serial interface. To be able to place my Arduino anywhere in my home, far away from my system running Pimatic, I have begun to update homeduino and related projects to support a TCP/IP connection.

https://github.com/qistoph/homeduino/tree/tcpdriver

The Arduino code seems to run reliably now, but the Pimatic plugin is not working properly.

https://github.com/qistoph/pimatic-homeduino/tree/tcpdriver

I’m not really familiair with coffee-script and the way to build this plugin. If anyone would be able to provide some support or could work with me on this plugin, that would be very much appreciated.

Kind regards,
Chris

@Chris-van-Marle Nice project! To get this integrated with pimatic 0.9 your pimatic-homeduino#tcpdriver branch needs to be based on v0.9.x branch! At the current stage this should be easy todo as you only have one commit so far. To implement the actual tcp driver for pimatic-homeduino as a counterpart of the homeduino firmware for the Arduino you need to clone the hoemduinojs project. The npm package name associated with homeduinojs is “homeduino” which is a bit confusing as this is name is also used for the Arduino firmware project. As you say you’re not familar with Coffeescript I can help you with the basic tcp driver implementation.

The easiest way to set up the dev environment is to make regular pimatic 0.9 setup with pimatic-homeduino. Once this is working you

• remove node_modules/pimatic-homeduino and put a checkout from you fork
• run npm install inside the pimatic-homeduino directory
• cd into node_modules/pimatic-homeduino/node_modules and remove homeduino
• checkout youe homeduinojs fork
• cd into homeduino and run npm install