My house uses a Lutron HomeWorks processor for lighting. I have interfaced it with my Premise system via RS-232.
The Lutron RS-232 protocol works great two/way, but does not provide access to any of the metadata about the system (such as names of keypad buttons, loads, or scenes).
The Lutron programming software (Lutron HomeWorks Iteractive or HWI) is a convoluted piece of 1990's visual programming gone bad. But it works.
The problem is I want programmatic access to the metadata for my ligthing system to better bridge to Lutron. My system is complex/big enough that manually entering all the data is too hard/error prone. For example I'd like a TXT or XML file that contained all of my Keypads, their buttons, and what interfaces/busses they are programmed on so that I can automatically import them into Premise.
HWI stores it's programming projets in MDF files which are really Access databases. The files can be opened and viewed in Microsoft Access. HOWEVER, the database schema is undocumented an gnarly complex. I do not have the time or energy to reverse engineer it to create the queries that would extract things.
Has anyone ever heard of a tool that knows the Lutron HWI MDF schema or otherwise can extract data from HWI projects?
The Lutron RS-232 protocol works great two/way, but does not provide access to any of the metadata about the system (such as names of keypad buttons, loads, or scenes).
The Lutron programming software (Lutron HomeWorks Iteractive or HWI) is a convoluted piece of 1990's visual programming gone bad. But it works.
The problem is I want programmatic access to the metadata for my ligthing system to better bridge to Lutron. My system is complex/big enough that manually entering all the data is too hard/error prone. For example I'd like a TXT or XML file that contained all of my Keypads, their buttons, and what interfaces/busses they are programmed on so that I can automatically import them into Premise.
HWI stores it's programming projets in MDF files which are really Access databases. The files can be opened and viewed in Microsoft Access. HOWEVER, the database schema is undocumented an gnarly complex. I do not have the time or energy to reverse engineer it to create the queries that would extract things.
Has anyone ever heard of a tool that knows the Lutron HWI MDF schema or otherwise can extract data from HWI projects?
