Vera 3 and GC-100 TTL Sensor Input Implementations

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OK, I’ve given it the old college try and I’m still having trouble.

I bought a Vera 3 a couple of months ago and I’ve been building out my home automation system with good luck so far. I’ve succesfully installed a handful of dimmers, switches, receptacles thermostat and an Everspring SM103 (to launch a scene when I come through the front door). My next leap is to integrate a garage door opener, so I bought a GC-100. (That may sound like overkill, but I have plans for all the other ports.)

Long story short, I am able to conrtol the GC-100 relays from the Vera web UI, however, the “GC100 TTL Input” does not work as I’m expecting. I have a test microswitch installed on a 3.5mm plug, and it is inserted into the one of the GC-100 ports (configured as “SENSOR” of course.) When the switch is actvated, there is no response at the Vera GUI. (I know the test switch is working properly because the LED on the GC-100 faceplate toggles as I hit the switch.) And when I try to “ARM” or “BYPASS” the ‘GC100 TTL Input’ device from the UI, I get the “No Implementation” error. Implementation??

After reading through a handful of posts here (and on Global Cache’s site) I have not been able to derive a solution to my probelms.

Does anyone have a good source of information that integrates the Vera 3 and GC-100? Or at least some instructions that explain how to configure the two for a simple sensor input?

BTW, maybe I’m missing something big, but I have no idea where to find/edit the XML files that get mentioned often on the boards here. My experience with Vera has been completely web/GUI based and I’m not sure how to get to its support files…

Any advice for a pseudo-newbie?

Thanks in advance:

JP

Vera 3 - 1.5.346
w/ Global Cache GC100 V 1.0 Plug-in
GC-100-12 - V 3.2-12

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I can’t help you directly with your problem, as I don’t have a GC-100. However, I can fill you in on a few of the questions you have.

First, when you get the “No implementation” error, it means that the button you clicked attempted to call some LUA code on the back end that doesn’t exist. Or, in geek terms there is no implementation for what to do when you click that button. This either means the button is there by mistake, or there is a bug in the code for the module. Hopefully someone can shed more light on this.

As far as getting at the XML files in question, it depends on what you are trying to do. In general, you can probably just download and upload them to/from your Vera using the Apps->Develop Apps->LUUP files menu options. If you want to do something more advanced, you may need to SSH in to the Vera. If you are using a Mac, ssh is included, you just need to open a command shell and run the command “ssh root@”. If you are using Windows you will need to download something like PuTTY. It is free, and works well. (I use it almost all day. :wink:

Hope this helps a little.

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Thanks fba. Pointing me to the LUUP files is great. That answers one of my big questions, and it gives me something to experiment with.

Now if only I could find someone experienced with setting up a GC-100 to act as a sensor with Vera 3.

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I got the same issue. How did you fix it? Is Vera3 GC App not implement Sensor feature yet?

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Hello,

@RichardTSchaefer has identified an error with the implementation file. See post here
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,11851.msg85990.html#msg85990 and
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,11879.msg85972.html#msg85972

He also uses a Itach CC for his garage door see
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,4773.msg87244.html#msg87244

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These units are inexpensive on Ebay as used. I great tool with multiple IO if we can get the ingratiation completed. Could be the cheapest sensor out there (used market).

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Has anyone gotten this to work yet?

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Works great! I use GC-100’s for garage door and irrigation valve control.

Set up your GC100 sensors as SENSOR WITH AUTO-NOTIFY. You must have 3.2 or newer firmware.
Then patiently work the sensors and reboot the vera and GC-100 numerous times and eventually it works flawlessly. For some reason it takes a few reboots.

Let me know that it worked.

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Yup, already stumbled onto that! :stuck_out_tongue:
I got it working by rebooting also, still having issues though. I can’t seem to trigger off the states of the inputs.
Are your device icons red or green when the sensors ARE NOT tripped?? Mine are red and show as tripped when it’s in it’s normal state.
Can’t seem to find the happy medium to use them as triggers.

See here for more:
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,26898.0.html

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I use a Combination Switch to monitor the state in many cases. Then i trigger scenes from this combination switch.

I how found a few other apps that can read the sensor directly, but combo switch seems to work fine.

I have a magnetic sensor wired to GC-100 for fully open and fully closed garage door. Also have a temp sensor on the output side of furnace to motor it. All work well. My next is to use a $8 light sensor from Amazon to trigger dark via GC-100.

I have found this to be the cheapest sensor out there to feed my Vera.