Jimbo333 thanks for the response it really helped trouble shoot my problem. I went through the scp again. here is a copy of my log:
/overlay/sbin$ altsteon
Debug Level : 0
[1/5/2013 - 09:11:46] - --| Starting altsteon!
Quitting parent.
[1/5/2013 - 09:11:46] - PLM is devcat 3, subcat 21, address 1E.4D.64 running software rev. 155.$ altsteon -h
altsteon - Insteon Control Daemon v.0.04
Arguments :
-p - Path to the PLM device.
-t - Length of time (in seconds) between status polls. (Defaults to 10 minutes)
-f - Run in the foreground.
-l - Log to log.txt
-d - Enabled debug output. (-dd for more)
-h - This screen.
Example :
If your PLM is located at /dev/ttyUSB3, the command
line would look like this :
altsteon -p /dev/ttyUSB3
/overlay/sbin$ altsteon -ddd
Quitting parent.
Debug Level : 3
[1/5/2013 - 09:11:59] - --| Starting altsteon!
[DEBUG] [1/5/2013 - 09:11:59] - Opening /dev/ttyUSB0…$ altsteon -p /dev/ttyUSB0
Quitting parent.
Debug Level : 0
[1/5/2013 - 09:12:18] - --| Starting altsteon!
[1/5/2013 - 09:12:18] - PLM is devcat 3, subcat 21, address 1E.4D.64 running software rev. 155.$ altsteon -l
Quitting parent.
Debug Level : 0$ altsteon -l
Quitting parent.
Debug Level : 0$ altsteon -t
altsteon: option requires an argument – t
Unknown command line parameter ‘?’!
altsteon - Insteon Control Daemon v.0.04
Arguments :
-p - Path to the PLM device.
-t - Length of time (in seconds) between status polls. (Defaults to 10 minutes)
-f - Run in the foreground.
-l - Log to log.txt
-d - Enabled debug output. (-dd for more)
-h - This screen.
Example :
If your PLM is located at /dev/ttyUSB3, the command
line would look like this :
altsteon -p /dev/ttyUSB3
/overlay/sbin$ add_device 14.f5.92
-ash: add_device: not found
/overlay/sbin$ altsteon add_device 14.f5.92
Quitting parent.
Debug Level : 0
[1/5/2013 - 09:15:51] - --| Starting altsteon!
a few things i noticed. first the help command states that it is version 0.04 when I downloaded version 0.05. second I can get the altsteon command to work properly but whenever I run altsteon_cli it locks up and then I get an error that states that the device timed out and it forces me to abort. I am using a veralite and the binary files I downloaded are from the vera 3 binary folder.
when it froze on trying to open the altsteon cli command I got the image of the log below.
am I on the right track? has anyone else had problems getting the altsteon_cli to open?
thanks in advance for anyones insight.