HomeAutomation 2.0

[knut]

Permissions of the "resources" folder:
drwxrwsr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Aug 11 20:36 resources


My "tellstick.conf":

deviceNode = "/dev/tellstick"
device {
id = 1
name = "MyLamp"
protocol = "NEXA"
model = "NEYCR-1000"
parameters {
house = "A"
unit = "1"
}
}

[DanielM]

Permissions of the "resources" folder:
drwxrwsr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Aug 11 20:36 resources

Well, that should definitely work. Could you try enabling debug logging in the settings and see if you get anything useful in logs/debug.txt when you try the upload?

My "tellstick.conf":

deviceNode = "/dev/tellstick"
device {
id = 1
name = "MyLamp"
protocol = "NEXA"
model = "NEYCR-1000"
parameters {
house = "A"
unit = "1"
}
}

Ok. The protocol and model parameters isn't supposed to keep the exact model of the device, it is just a setting of which kind of receiver it is. Try changing model to "codeswitch" and protocol to "arctech" and see if it works better.

/Daniel

[knut]

Yes! Changing the configfile as you instructed made it work!

I also got the background image upload to work. The image I first tried was quite large: 2816x2112 and 2MB. I tried a smaller one 450x470, 240kB. The later worked.

Thank you for the fast help!

[DanielM]

Yes! Changing the configfile as you instructed made it work!

I also got the background image upload to work. The image I first tried was quite large: 2816x2112 and 2MB. I tried a smaller one 450x470, 240kB. The later worked.

Thank you for the fast help!

Good!

I don't know why the first image didn't work. Might be some setting in php limiting the acceptable size of uploaded files. Anyways that big image doesn't seem like a good idea, might be a problem if you're stuck on a bad connection somewhere and can't turn on your lamps because the image is too big

/Daniel

[knut]

True
Thank you for the support!

[Klingan]

I will retry to complete this solution when I have a bunch of hours to dedicate!

A complete Tellstick + HA-step-by-step installation guide on the Wiki would be VERY appreciated.

Love the project!

[Magnus]

I made a wiki guide for HomeAutomation and Tellstick from various threads here on the forum. You find it here: http://wiki.excito.org/wiki/index.php/H ... _Tellstick.

Please let me know if I missed or got anything wrong!
/Magnus

[DanielM]

I made a wiki guide for HomeAutomation and Tellstick from various threads here on the forum. You find it here: http://wiki.excito.org/wiki/index.php/H ... _Tellstick.

Please let me know if I missed or got anything wrong!
/Magnus

Thank you very much, it's very appreciated!

Some comments:

• The "house" parameter should be a letter when using the codeswitch protocol.
• Just changing the permissions of /dev/tellstick will give problems after next reboot. Better add an udev rule so the node is created with correct permissions. I have a /etc/udev/rules.d/99-tellstick.rules containing the following:

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  KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="1781", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0c30", NAME="tellstick", GROUP="plugdev"

• What was the point with the installation of phpmyadmin?

/Daniel

[Magnus]

The "house" parameter should be a letter when using the codeswitch protocol.
Just changing the permissions of /dev/tellstick will give problems after next reboot. Better add an udev rule so the node is created with correct permissions. I have a /etc/udev/rules.d/99-tellstick.rules containing the following:
KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="1781", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0c30", NAME="tellstick", GROUP="plugdev"

Great, I have updated the guide.

What was the point with the installation of phpmyadmin?

Hmm, good point. This was from an earlier version I had of the guide.
/Magnus

[DanielM]

Great, I have updated the guide.

Good. A thought struck me though: Is www-data member of plugdev per default? Otherwise it either must be added or the udev rule has to be changed.

Oh, and if the udev rule is changed after inserting the Tellstick it won't do much good until after next boot

/Daniel

[Magnus]

I changed the udev rule to www-data instead, and added a reboot...
/Magnus

[dreher]

Excellent guide. I wish I had that when I installed Home Automation on my B2 a few weeks ago.

The guide seems to be more or less what I did. However I also had to give www-data write permission to /var/state/telldus-core.conf. Without that tdtool would fail after sending the first command, so if you tried to turn on several devices simultaneously from Home Automation only the first would be successfully turned on.

[johannes]

I followed Magnus's guide and it worked great. Today I added a few new units to /etc/tellstick.conf and wanted to import them to HA, but how? According to the guide, there should be a text saying "Uppdatera från Tellstick" under konfiguration -> enheter, but there is none? See screenshot.

I tried deleting the units I already had there (thinking the text only would show up if the lsit was empty) but it didn't work either.

Knowing that this is probably something easy - please don't kill me for being stupid.

[DanielM]

According to the guide, there should be a text saying "Uppdatera från Tellstick" under konfiguration -> enheter, but there is none? See screenshot.

Oops.

You seem to have found a bug here. Strangely enough nobody has seen this before.

The problem here is that you're logged in as "local". That user seem to have the user level "user", which doesn't have permission to import devices. Of course it shouldn't have permissions to remove devices either.

So, the solution for you is to click "Logga ut" and then login using an account that has user level "admin" and import the devices from there. And I'll fix the bug in svn so it doesn't look like this in next release.

/Daniel

[johannes]

Ah, explains. I noted that the "edit" buttons where dead, but remove worked..

Thanks!