Viewing Lutron Homeworks Driver Strings over TCP/IP?

John Gonzales

Are the Lutron Homeworks serial driver strings visible over TCP/IP? For instance, if I create a serial driver on the Homeworks panel that's fired off on a Keypad Button Press, I know I can monitor it through the RS232 port, but is the driver also visible over TCP/IP when it's fired? Is there anything that needs to be set up on the Homeworks processor other than 'DRMON'?

I'm trying to get a Homeworks panel to fire off a customized string when a keypad button is pressed, but I'm not seeing any data over telnet.

Sorry if the question doesn't make sense, let me know and I'll rephrase.

Thanks.

John Gonzales

Incidentally, this is more of an academic thread. I'm monitoring the KBP which is just as easy.

--John

Spire_Jeff

Unless Lutron has changed something, the Serial Drivers do not send to the IP connections. I had to do what you are doing and just look for keypad button pushes, releases and holds.

Jeff

vining

Yeah to the best of my knowledge I've only ever done this over a seperate serial connection from the Lutron processor. My normal HomeWorks/AMX comms are usually over IP but the times I've used Lutron keypads to work audio or anything else using driver strings was by using a serial driver and assigning it to the 232 port I wanted to use and sending my own created driver strings.

If you just want to trap keypad button presses & releases instead of creating driver strings you could just enable keypad button monitoring:

L232> KBMON
Keypad button monitoring enabled

Example
Someone presses button 1 on processor 1, link 4, keypad address 4

KBP, [01:04:04], 1

Example
Someone releases button 1 on processor 1, link 4, keypad address 4

KBR, [01:04:04], 1

Someone holds button 1 on processor 1, link 4, keypad address 4

KBH, [01:04:04], 1

Then just trap the these strings and do what ever you want. I've never done it this way, not sure why, I guess I felt I'd rather keep thing seperate.

John Gonzales

Thanks guys!