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RFLink binding for OpenHAB 2.0
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Misleading documentation of RTS thing Device Id #40

Closed numo68 closed 5 years ago

numo68 commented 5 years ago

The ESH-INF/thing/rts.xml documents the Device Id as

Must contain the Protocol + Address + EPROM index (using '-' as separator). For instance : RTS-123ABC-1

I have four RTS blinds with addresses xxxxx1, xxxxx2, xxxxx3 and xxxxx4 paired at EEPROM locations 1, 2, 3 and 4. I did understand this as the EEPROM index where the device is paired so I parametrized RTS-xxxxx1-1, RTS-xxxxx2-2 etc. With these ids the second blind was operating in reverse - going up for the generated 10;RTS;xxxxx2;2;DOWN; command.

I just have the blinds so it might be different for other devices; I think however that the final number is not an EEPROM index but a channel number inside the device. I thus configured the blind as RTS-xxxxx2-1 and the direction now matches. 0 is fine as well. Just the 2 seems to invert.

I'd recommend to change the wording to something like "... + the channel number", possibly with further explanation that the blinds use a 1.

Thanks

cartemere commented 5 years ago

I checked the RFLink documentation... and it seems you are right ^^ http://www.rflink.nl/blog2/protref

10;RTS;1a602a;0;ON; => RTS protocol, address, command (zero is unused for now)

I will update the documentation according to your recommendation. Thanks for the tip 👍

cartemere commented 5 years ago

configuration updated to reflect the changes