LED's?

rimai · Post by **rimai** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 3:36 pm

Well, my first attempt was a failure.

Let me investigate what went wrong.

wolfador · Post by **wolfador** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 4:35 pm

rimai wrote:Well, my first attempt was a failure.
Let me investigate what went wrong.

oh no

rimai · Post by **rimai** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 7:59 pm

Ok, so I had some time to go reasearch on why my 1st attempt was not successful and I realized that I missed an interesting point.
On my haste and excitement that they were using serial communication, I forgot to measure the voltage they are using.
According to the data I sniffed from their controller, they are using a very odd and non-standard serial protocol. They are inverting everything, which doesn't make sense.
Unless they actually using real RS-232 logic levels, instead of TTL levels.
So, I'm going to hack the code to invert the signals and head out to test again tomorrow.

rimai · Post by **rimai** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 8:35 pm

I guess I just found out the answer of the inverted signal.
It does look like they indeed use RS-232 levels instead of UART levels
This is a photo from Neptunes website:

The cable connects to the serial port of their VDM module.

wolfador · Post by **wolfador** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 8:38 pm

rimai wrote:I guess I just found out the answer of the inverted signal.
It does look like they indeed use RS-232 levels instead of UART levels
This is a photo from Neptunes website:

The cable connects to the serial port of their VDM module.

Once you had mentioned it being RS-232, this also made sense

http://www.ghl-direct.com/proddetail.ph ... profiluxAI

rimai · Post by **rimai** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 7:44 pm

So, I went to LFS today to measure the voltage and took an RA with me with the inverted UART signal.
I guess there is no need for additional hardware

This was my very crude attempt of thunderstorm, just to confirm that I could control it.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDniy7FvF0A[/youtube]

So, I guess I'll work on creating a library for it and have some cables available at the webstore very shortly

wolfador · Post by **wolfador** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 7:55 pm

awesome, let me know when the cables are ready

wolfador · Post by **wolfador** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:18 pm

I see the class added to Curt's github. I am excited to get this working

pandimus · Post by **pandimus** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 6:48 pm

Has anyone else built one of these? I have the shielding going to the base of the plug and red wire going to middle section, with my polarity same as the dimmer ports on relay.. But its still not contrilling my ai sol.

pandimus · Post by **pandimus** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 11:34 am

Anyone? All i seem to get is full on or a flicker with my sol

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