Somfy serial port example UI5 and me beeing totally new to this !

Hello all

My name is Tommy and I’ve just bought myself a VeraLite together with a few devices.

I came across the QuadRelay blinds plugin, and then ordered one of those quad relay boards as well.
I would like to use the relays for underfloor heating, sprinkler and ventilation.

While waiting for the RelayBoard I installed the plugin, and see that it is tailored for blinds.

I have had a go with the Somfy example trying to make my own QuadRelay plugin that will expose the four relays as 4 ON/OFF switches instead of blinds.

I’m reading the Somfy example, and there are references in there that doesn’t make sense to me, probably as I’ve never seen UI4 as I see alot of talk about in other threads on the forum.

I’ve nevertheless found my way thru most of it, and I get a device created with four childs having ON/OFF buttons.

I now have two problems.

  1. The UI says ‘not implemented’ when clicking ON/OFF

  2. The problem is that the serial port doesn’t open properly ( I think)

The errormessage I get is :

GetLuaInterface can’t find device type: -1/0xe35b68 str: (null) <0x2d027680>
01 07/19/12 8:45:47.361 luup_io_write 0xe7e3b8 args 1 <0x2d027680>
50 07/19/12 8:45:48.376 luup_log:25: Received: Port already in use <0x2de27680>

Wondering if anyone can shed some light to this?!

I’m totallt new to this so forgive me for asking the stupid questions here.

Regards
TommyE

@TommyE,

Did you manage to make any head way with this? I too have the quad relay and are simply looking for 4 on/off relays.