Cannot see Oregon sensors in Homeseer

Post by **binkiem** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 1:04 am

Last week i bought a RFXCOM (with lan and 2 com ports) I walked through the manual. A com port is created. The receiver program do not see the com port. (the comport can be seen in Windows devicemanager. )But if i test with the ip number, i can see the sensors comming in. I also bought the rfxcom homeseer plugin and config to the defined comport and checked "os" for receiver 1. Within homeseer i see no error, but within the menu "input devices" i cannot see anything comming in. What is wrong? btw i use dotnet 3.5 sp1 framework.

Post by **b_weijenberg** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:19 am

Only 1 application can connect to a COM port and also 1 IP connection could be made with the controller. So if CPR connects correct and Homeseer is not running you should be able to connect the receiver using RFreceiver.

You need to install .NET 1.1 and 2.0 The .NET frameworks are independent versions and not updates! So if 3.5 is installed you still need to install 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0

Post by **binkiem** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:24 am

At the moment i start the rfreceiver application, homeseer is completely down. The stange thing is that i cannot see the defined com port in the pull down menu in rfreceiver. But within Windows Xp device manager i see the com port. I will continue to install other dotnet versions first as you suggested.

Post by **binkiem** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:19 am

i now installed all dot net packages. The following frameworks are now loaded. 1.1 , 2.0 SP2, 3.0 SP2 ans 3.5 Sp1. I now see the com port 7 (which i defined) in the dropdown menu. But after selecting this, there is no communication. When i select the ip nummer, i see all sensors. Do i have to change the baud setting in Windows device manager?

Within CPR manager i can test COM 7. I can open the port and the status is then connected. Closing works also fine.

Post by **b_weijenberg** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:11 pm

don't change anything in the Device Mngr!

Use 4800bd!
Don't use the Toggle Baudrate button in RFreceiver (as indicated).

Post by **binkiem** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:20 pm

i didn't do both. Any suggestions further?

Post by **b_weijenberg** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 1:14 pm

did you read
http://www.rfxcom.com/documents/RFXCOM_ ... erface.pdf
and http://www.rfxcom.com/documents/Quick_S ... meseer.pdf

Post by **binkiem** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:49 pm

the interface doc: mmmm someone in the room screamed RTFM. I don't know what it mean [:D]

I made a change according the manual and know it is working. Thanx.

Post by **Bwired** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:11 pm

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