CBUS connection problem

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  • barranak
    Automated Home Lurker
    • Feb 2014
    • 6

    CBUS connection problem

    Hi every one,

    I am hoping that someone can help with a communication issue.

    I have set up a serial to Ethernet convertor on my home network, connected to my 5100T telephone interface and struggled to connect. I then used a usb to serial directly from my laptop everything connected was able to program units. Next step I tried the Ethernet/serial device again and i was straight in.

    Here is where the trouble started ever since going back to using it no connection over the Ethernet but no problem locally. So I thought I would use the CBUS diagnostic utility with the Ethernet connection and everything works fine can connect and send all on all off commands. So I am at a loss as to why i can not connect the toolkit over the serial /Ethernet maybe some one has had the same problem and can help.

    Andy
    Last edited by barranak; 21 May 2014, 08:47 AM.
  • MichaelD
    Automated Home Guru
    • Mar 2006
    • 167

    #2
    Not sure what you mean by a 'serial to ethernet connector'? Is that one of the 5500 series cbus devices?

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    • barranak
      Automated Home Lurker
      • Feb 2014
      • 6

      #3
      Hi,

      Maybe I should have described it as a serial to Ethernet convertor. Its a small box that has 5VDC power applied the serial to the telephone interface goes in one end, and the Ethernet connection to the local network goes in the other. A setup software is run to make a virtual coms port that the pc running the cbus toolkit connects to. Like I said I get brilliant coms with the cbus network diagnostic utility and can send commands with that tool. When I try to connect the toolkit to the same coms port it always says pc interface not found.

      This part of the forum seems very quiet so presuming that cbus as a installation method is not being used very much any one here installing at the moment?
      Last edited by barranak; 25 May 2014, 02:26 PM.

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