Elk M1 Source Code

[jbauer]

Hey Guys,

I have read the documentation for the Elk M1 serial port protocol located here:

http://www.elkproducts.com/pdf/ELK-M1_RS232_PROTOCOL.pdf

I would like to write a small application that interfaces to the serial port on the Elk and am wondering if anyone else has created anything like this. Idealy I would like Visual Basic source, but I'll take anything I can get.

The application that I am going to write will listen for input status changes, and respond appropriately based on which input changed. I would also like to implement output control. I'm just feeling kind of lazy about parsing the data that comes back and kind of hope someone else has done it already for me. I'm not really a "wheel reinventor".

- jason

 

[BraveSirRobbin]

Our Forum Administrator, Dan (electron) wrote one in VB Script for HomeSeer:

http://www.cocoontech.com/index.php?showtopic=2353

 

[sandman]

Why dont you stoke up a "virtual windows machine" and load something like http://www.homeseer.com

There is a great plugin thats written by UltraJones.....

While the ELK is reasonably ok with its scheduling and tasks, Homeseer takes it to a much higher level !

Enjoy..Pete

 

[mdonovan]

Here is a vb.net port of the myelk vbscript. I wrote this for Homeseer, but then lost interest in Homeseer. The code was never tested. I am going to at some point strip all the Homeseer code out and turn it into a .Net assembly so I can use it in a xAP connector.

http://www.cocoontech.com/index.php?showto...6818&hl=elk

Matt

 

[jbauer]

Here is a vb.net port of the myelk vbscript.

I'd like to take a look at this, but it appears that the cocoontech server no longer has it. Can you re-up it for me? Thanks.

- jason

 

[gwww]

If you like perl this was posted a while ago: http://sourceforge.net/projects/elkm1control

I have not tried it but I did peruse the code; looks like it should work and it would be great to have someone using it and starting to see some bugs fixed and some improvements.

 

[mdonovan]

Attached should be the MyElk port. I had to make the extension .txt because it will not allow .vb files to be uploaded. Maybe that's what happened to the other copy.

Matt

BTW, cocoontech admins - When I went to upload the file, it said I had 56.4k of my upload space used, but there were no attachments to manage. Maybe previous uploads are a bit wonky?