Please bear with me while I vent. I spent a Saturday neck deep in frustration, and there's still more ahead for today.
I got my Elk parts Friday, and I'm going to spend Saturday getting everything all set up and working. Wrong.
I hooked everything up according to the documentation I have that I downloaded from Elk. I read over it all ahead of time so I can just hook everything up. I power the Elk up. Lost Comm on the keypads (2), no response from the M1XEP when I search for it in RP2. After looking at everything over and over and not seeing anything, I just put the jumper on the XEP, powered off then on to set it static IP, then repeat to get DHCP. Suddenly it works. Ok, whatever. RP software connects fine.
Start looking at the keypads now. They are on an M1DBH, along with the wireless adapter. I notice in the RP software when I try to enroll bus devices, keypad shows missing. XEP is there, working great. RF receiver doesn't show. Nothing on the data bus shows actually.
Spent the rest of the day checking everything, rechecking everything, putting EOL terminators on, taking them off, and inventing new cuss words. Nothing works. I'm checking everything against PDFs I got stored on my laptop. Everything matches. Then I notice that the RP software can connect to the XEP, but I get an error that the XEP didn't respond.
I decided to quit and go drink beer and forget about the stupid Elk for the evening.
This morning I decided to go over everything again. Maybe a nights sleep will help me see something. This time I didn't have my laptop handy, but the directions for the M1DBH were handy, so I used them. Then I saw the documentation error.
The PDF has Orange and white/orange going to data A, and Green and white/green going to data B. The paper directions that came with the M1DBH show Orange and Green going to A and White/orange and White/green going to B. I rewired my keypads to this, and now one of them is working, but the other still shows Lost Comms, so at least now I'm getting *somewhere*. Elk - you need to fix that, please.
So now I have a keypad working, showing Ethernet Trouble, and a non responsive XEP that I used to be able to connect to, but now can't. I can find it, and the RP software says it connects, but no response. I tried connecting with a browser, but no response.
So, I'm going back at it again today for a bit, then if it's not working I'm going to gather all the parts up and chuck them out the window onto the driveway, then run over them with my car.
Thanks for listening/reading
Matt
I got my Elk parts Friday, and I'm going to spend Saturday getting everything all set up and working. Wrong.
I hooked everything up according to the documentation I have that I downloaded from Elk. I read over it all ahead of time so I can just hook everything up. I power the Elk up. Lost Comm on the keypads (2), no response from the M1XEP when I search for it in RP2. After looking at everything over and over and not seeing anything, I just put the jumper on the XEP, powered off then on to set it static IP, then repeat to get DHCP. Suddenly it works. Ok, whatever. RP software connects fine.
Start looking at the keypads now. They are on an M1DBH, along with the wireless adapter. I notice in the RP software when I try to enroll bus devices, keypad shows missing. XEP is there, working great. RF receiver doesn't show. Nothing on the data bus shows actually.
Spent the rest of the day checking everything, rechecking everything, putting EOL terminators on, taking them off, and inventing new cuss words. Nothing works. I'm checking everything against PDFs I got stored on my laptop. Everything matches. Then I notice that the RP software can connect to the XEP, but I get an error that the XEP didn't respond.
I decided to quit and go drink beer and forget about the stupid Elk for the evening.
This morning I decided to go over everything again. Maybe a nights sleep will help me see something. This time I didn't have my laptop handy, but the directions for the M1DBH were handy, so I used them. Then I saw the documentation error.
The PDF has Orange and white/orange going to data A, and Green and white/green going to data B. The paper directions that came with the M1DBH show Orange and Green going to A and White/orange and White/green going to B. I rewired my keypads to this, and now one of them is working, but the other still shows Lost Comms, so at least now I'm getting *somewhere*. Elk - you need to fix that, please.
So now I have a keypad working, showing Ethernet Trouble, and a non responsive XEP that I used to be able to connect to, but now can't. I can find it, and the RP software says it connects, but no response. I tried connecting with a browser, but no response.
So, I'm going back at it again today for a bit, then if it's not working I'm going to gather all the parts up and chuck them out the window onto the driveway, then run over them with my car.
Thanks for listening/reading
Matt