Z-Wave and xPL

[Michael McSharry]

The hub I use acts as a hub for both xAP and xPL and does some basic schema translation/routing between the two protocols. I was thinking about adding the xPL capability to my mcsXap plugin for Homeseer, but there really has not been anyone posting on the Homeseer board that had any interest in xPL. I suspect that this is because xpHAL represents a centralize rather that distributed node and Homeseer also acts a centralized node for most on the Homeseer board.

There is considerably more to an xPL/xAP Homeseer plugin than just having the abilty to send LAN messages. In essence what one is doing is exposing the Homeseer SDK to a distributed paradymn. Some examples are translation of the IR and X10 API used by Homeseer, remote VR and TTS, and management of event source and sinks.

 

[Michael McSharry]

I opened up my xap-xpl hub to add some bridging for a user on the HS board and added the xpl zwave.basic bridge to xap xapbsc schema mapping for anyone who would like to try the xPL Zwave implementation in an xAP environment. I dont have any zwave hardware so successful operations will likely be a cooperative effort.

 

[ChrisWalker]

Very cool. Now who's going to test it out first? :lol:

Chris

 

[mlansell]

I opened up my xap-xpl hub to add some bridging for a user on the HS board and added the xpl zwave.basic bridge to xap xapbsc schema mapping for anyone who would like to try the xPL Zwave implementation in an xAP environment. I dont have any zwave hardware so successful operations will likely be a cooperative effort.

From where is this hub available?

Thanks

Mal

 

[Michael McSharry]

http://board.homeseer.com/showthread.php?p=681402#post681402

Note that in the bottom of this referenced thread that the recent update seems to have a problem with what looks like a loopback condition from messages on the xPL port so it would be best to wait until that issue is better understood.

I also did not translate the HVAC-related commands into xapbsc since xapbsc does not fit very well as an HVAC schema and the zwave.basic with HVAC data could be interpreted just as easily by the receiver (e.g. Homeseer) that is looking for a thermostat interface. I'm not aware of an xAP HVAC schema so the xPL one would suffice just as well on the xAP LAN.

 

[damage]

xAP floorplan ( http://www.mi4.biz ) also does bridging between xAP & xPL. it is a scripting engine as well and you can write scripts that act on both xAP and xPL. i ended up replacing xPLHAL with floorplan.

 

[Michael McSharry]

I was not aware of the XPL support of floorplan. It looks like a good way to do this as I prefer to keep the hub as simple and trouble-free as possible. In the text it indicates that certain schema are translated. Do you know what schema are included in "certain"? Is Zwave.basic or the more generic HVAC and Lighting schema?

 

[damage]

i don't know exactly which schemas are translated. you can bring up the xAP message viewer to see if the source you're interested in is translated (or send an email to the author, James). xPL sources will have "xpl." prepended to their names.