envisalink-dsc node on Polisy not fully communicating with ISY

[dwengrovitz]

@Goose66 - I tried installing and running the envisalink-dsc nodeserver on my Polisy / ISY setup. It seems to install and the node shows up in ISY, but communications between the ISY and the nodeserver doesn't seem to be fully working. For example, I set a custom config parameter to show only 9 zones, but 16 still show up in the ISY admin console. Changes in zone status also do not appear to show up in the ISY.

I was using nodelink to communicate with the ISY and DSC panel, and that worked fine for years, but was thinking if I could run this on the Polisy I could repurpose the nodelink Raspberry Pi for something else. I have disabled the nodelink connection for now while testing this out.

Attached is a copy of the log file. Any suggestions?

EnvisaLink-DSC_2020-3-8_121500.txt

[Goose66]

Looks like the custom configuration parameters are not setup according to instructions. The applicable log entries are:

Starting envisaink Nodeserver... 2020-03-08 11:41:24,229 [NodeServer] [ERROR] Missing IP address for EnvisaLink device in configuration. 2020-03-08 11:41:24,230 [NodeServer] [INFO ] Sending addnotice to Polyglot: {'key': None, 'value': "Please update the 'ipaddress' parameter value in the nodeserver custom parameters and restart the nodeserver."} 2020-03-08 11:41:24,232 [NodeServer] [ERROR] Missing password for EnvisaLink device in configuration. 2020-03-08 11:41:24,233 [NodeServer] [INFO ] Sending addnotice to Polyglot: {'key': None, 'value': "Please update the 'password' parameter value in the nodeserver custom parameters and restart the nodeserver."} 2020-03-08 11:41:24,235 [NodeServer] [ERROR] Missing user code for DSC panel in configuration. 2020-03-08 11:41:24,236 [NodeServer] [INFO ] Sending addnotice to Polyglot: {'key': None, 'value': "Please update the 'usercode' custom configuration parameter value in the nodeserver configuration and restart the nodeserver."} The notices also should have showed up in Polyglot Dashboard. Setup the custom configuration parameters as instructed in the README.MD and let me know if that works.

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On Mar 8, 2020, at 12:18 PM, dwengrovitz notifications@github.com wrote:

 @Goose66 - I tried installing and running the envisalink-dsc nodeserver on my Polisy / ISY setup. It seems to install and the node shows up in ISY, but communications between the ISY and the nodeserver doesn't seem to be fully working. For example, I set a custom config parameter to show only 9 zones, but 16 still show up in the ISY admin console. Changes in zone status also do not appear to show up in the ISY.

I was using nodelink to communicate with the ISY and DSC panel, and that worked fine for years, but was thinking if I could run this on the Polisy I could repurpose the nodelink Raspberry Pi for something else. I have disabled the nodelink connection for now while testing this out.

Attached is a copy of the log file. Any suggestions?

EnvisaLink-DSC_2020-3-8_121500.txt

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[dwengrovitz]

I think those messages are for the first time the nodeserver starts up, before one can set the config parameters. If you look a bit further down the log you can see when I restarted the nodeserver after those parameters were configured.

It's possible my nodelink setup was locking me out and preventing comms to the EVL4. I had disabled it in the ISY but I don't think that stops it from actually communicating to the EVL4. Once I unplugged the RPI that was running nodelink I started seeing communications to the ISY flow. So I think we can close this out ... thanks for taking a look at it for me.

I do have a few questions on the use of the envisalink nodeserver. Should I ask them here, or put them in the ISY forums?

[Goose66]

Let's handle this over on the UDI forums, please.