Install EIB eibd
The EIB / KNX bus can be accessed via the eibd daemon. The original distribution at TU Wien is no longer maintained. The work has been taken over on SourceForge.
Before all, make sure you have installed an xPL hub and a control user.
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Install the necessary packages:
su cd /tmp wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/bcusdk/files/pthsem/pthsem_2.0.8.tar.gz/download tar -xvf pthsem.tar.gz wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/bcusdk/files/latest/download?source=files -O bcusdk.tar.gz tar -xvf bcusdk.tar.gz
Install the packages:
cd pthsem* ./configure make make install cd ../bcusdk* export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib ./configure --without-pth-test --with-mctx-mth=sjlj --with-mctx-dsp=ssjlj --with-mctx-stk=sas \ --enable-onlyeibd --enable-eibnetip --enable-eibnetiptunnel --enable-eibnetipserver --enable-groupcache make make install cd echo "/usr/local/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/bcusdk.conf ldconfig touch /var/log/eibd.log chown control:users /var/log/eibd.log
Start the daemon and listen to messages:
su control eibd -S -D -i --daemon=/var/log/eibd.log ipt:192.168.1.204 ps ax | grep eibd | grep -v grep groupsocketlisten ip:localhost
Perform a write in a second terminal:
groupswrite ip:localhost 1/1/1 1 groupswrite ip:localhost 1/1/1 0
End the test back in the first terminal:
^C pkill eibd ps ax | grep eibd | grep -v grep
Install xPL EIB bridge
Download the eibd write and eibd read scripts.
Move the script to xPL scripts directory:
SCRIPTS_BASE_DIR=/home/control/Documents/Controls mv xpl-eib-eibdWrite.pl $SCRIPTS_BASE_DIR mv xpl-eib-eibdRead.pl $SCRIPTS_BASE_DIR chown control:users $SCRIPTS_BASE_DIR/*.pl chmod 775 $SCRIPTS_BASE_DIR/*.pl
Test xPL EIB writer
The test is shown here on a Linux machine such as a BeagleBone. It has to be slightly adapted on Mac OS.
Open a first terminal window (on any machine with xPL installed) and monitor the xPL protocol:
SCRIPTS_BASE_DIR=/home/control/Documents/Controls $SCRIPTS_BASE_DIR/xpl-monitor.pl -vf
If the eibd
daemon isn't running, launch it in a second window:
su control eibd -S -D -i --daemon=/var/log/eibd.log ipt:192.168.1.204
Then launch the eibd
monitor:
groupsocketlisten ip:localhost
In another terminal window, start the xPL EIB writer:
su control SCRIPTS_BASE_DIR=/home/control/Documents/Controls $SCRIPTS_BASE_DIR/xpl-eib-eibdWrite.pl -v -n home
Open yet another terminal and send a message to the EIB tunnelling server:
su control SCRIPTS_BASE_DIR=/home/control/Documents/Controls $SCRIPTS_BASE_DIR/xpl-send.pl -v -t cmnd -d dspc-eib.home -c eib.basic group='1/1/1' data=0x01
This should turn on EIB device 1/1/1
.
The groupsocketlisten
window should show the eibd
write command.
If no more testing is wanted, stop the EIB daemon:
pkill eibd ps ax | grep eibd | grep -v grep
Test xPL EIB reader
Open a first terminal window (on any machine with xPL installed) and monitor the xPL protocol:
SCRIPTS_BASE_DIR=/home/control/Documents/Controls $SCRIPTS_BASE_DIR/xpl-monitor.pl -vf
If the eibd
daemon isn't running, launch it in a second window:
su control eibd -S -D -i --daemon=/var/log/eibd.log ipt:192.168.1.204
Then start the xPL EIB reader:
SCRIPTS_BASE_DIR=/home/control/Documents/Controls groupsocketlisten ip:localhost | $SCRIPTS_BASE_DIR/xpl-eib-eibdRead.pl -v -n home
Push on an EIB button or send a message to the EIB tunnelling server:
su control groupswrite ip:localhost 1/1/1 1 groupswrite ip:localhost 1/1/1 0
The EIB activity should appear in the xpl-monitor.pl
window.
Stop the EIB daemon:
pkill eibd ps ax | grep eibd | grep -v grep
Launch the xPL EIB interface at startup
The EIB writer is to be launched after the xPL hub.
The EIB reader is launched as a pre-start script
.
Ubuntu
Edit /etc/init/xpl-eib.conf
:
################################################################################ # xPL EIB interface to an eibd daemon # description "xPL EIB interface" version "1.0" author "Francois Corthay" #------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Configuration variables # env SCRIPTS_DIR='/home/control/Documents/Controls' env EIBD_DIR='/usr/local/bin' env SCRIPT_NAME='xpl-eib-eibdWrite.pl' env PARAMETERS='-n home' #------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Start and stop conditions # start on xpl-hub_started stop on shutdown respawn setuid control setgid users #------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Start eibd daemon and reader before the writer # pre-start script $EIBD_DIR/eibd -S -D -i -d ipt:192.168.1.204 $EIBD_DIR/groupsocketlisten ip:localhost | $SCRIPTS_DIR/xpl-eib-eibdRead.pl $PARAMETERS & end script #------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Stop eib daemon on shutdown # pre-stop script pkill eibd end script #------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Start daemon # exec $SCRIPTS_DIR/$SCRIPT_NAME $PARAMETERS
Start the device and test it:
su root killall eibd service xpl-eib start su control SCRIPTS_BASE_DIR=/home/control/Documents/Controls $SCRIPTS_BASE_DIR/xpl-send.pl -v -t cmnd -d dspc-eib.home -c eib.basic group='1/1/1' data=0x01 $SCRIPTS_BASE_DIR/xpl-send.pl -v -t cmnd -d dspc-eib.home -c eib.basic group='1/1/1' data=0x00
Reboot the PC and check for the daemons:
ps ax | grep -i xpl | grep -v grep initctl list | grep xpl