HouseBot

I want to control a serial device (the famous HCS2) with this plugin

In order to update system variables in the HCS2 I need to send a "%" or hex 25 to the HCS

I.m using the general serial pluging

The plugin however treats this character as a special character (to imbed property values in the command) and reports an error (Unknow conversion type )



Anyone with a workaround for this problem (can't change the HCS software)

Could you set the string type to 'hex' and just use 25 in place of the %?

Thanks for your quick reply Scott , I tried both , but with the same result



btw marvelous piece of software

It would be nice if you could use %%, but I didn't think of that when writing the parsing. Other than to somehow pass a '%' in as the Property Value, I don't see a way of doing this.



I'll add it to the V2.0 list, if you want to wait.

Thanks again, wonder how you find the time to answer all those questions



Of course i can add a property value to the string, but can't figure out which property value is sent ; I added a new property to the device I created, but how to determine in the string that that value has to be taken



command is invoked via a button

I don't completely understand your setup to give you exact advice with this. For configuring the Property values and associating them to serial Commands, I can only refer you to the online help for the Serial Device and the Serial Hardware Interface. I've explained it better there than I will be able to here and now.



I hope to have a beta version of the next release out in a couple of weeks. You may have to wait until then. I'll implement using %% to be used for inserting a single %.