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I have been using bPentair as my primary pool controller for several months and am ready to release it to a few testers who have an IntelliTouch. The overall issue seems to be that when you layer abstraction on abstraction on abstraction, something will get dropped.Ĭan't believe this post is over a year old but. but again, i have yet to turn on a pump or flip a aux/relay on my intellitouch and have the system not act on it. there is clearly 3rd party hardware branded as Pentair that speak their own language and have their own packet structure mixed in with native Pentair packets. iLink's primary issue is that in an effort to simplify inner-connectivity, it has lost all but the most basic functionality. i have not seen a command go out successfully that wasn't acted on by Pentair.
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as much as i want to fault the iLink, i'm not so sure. no retry when a command fails (there are ACK and interface busy replies that could, but are not, used keep a msg from going into a black hole). 15+ query commands cycling every 30is seconds is probably not necessary (in fairness, not all of these make it to the bus as the iLink gobbles some up).
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the c4 driver has some questionable implementation.
#Pentair screenlogic troubleshooting update
an update to thermostat_v2 style extra would be nice step in the right direction. variable speed pumps, specialized lighting, chlorinators and chemical samplers are not that uncommon but not naturally supported by the proxy. aside from a few bugs, the pool proxy generally needs updating. There is enough head scratching for all the players here but generally, my issues with c4 relate more to functionality:
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Intellicenter is often offline it’s often buggy and overall the developers need to all be fired its ridiculous, but I guess when you hire the guy that was a pool cleaner to write your software, Intellicenter is what you get In all fairness it’s not control4 shitting the bed on this it’s pentair. If you need Beta testers for an Intellicenter or IntelliTouch driver, I am in! I have both.
#Pentair screenlogic troubleshooting how to
I have no idea how to make control4 drivers but if anyone needs any sort of assistance in terms of beta testing or anything like that to make screenlogic work I'd be happy to help. I hope you have plans to make the control4 driver available or someone else steps up to do this. Given that this works for smartthings I'd imagine it would work for control4 in the very way you are showing above. This method allows me to change things as well including turning on various pumps, lights, etc. There is links in that topic to the github as well as the smartthings driver (app). Here is the link to the smartthings topic smartthings pentair. I have screenlogic and do the same thing as you, use a rs232 usb adapter hooked up to the wireless screenlogic adapter inside my house. I am able to pull all the information using a js.node program that was developed for smartthings. Perhaps when bPentair get a little further along, i can look at the differences between intellitouch and intellicenter and intelliconect. as an example, the screenshot is real/live data. but even then i'm not sure you can get the info into/do anything about it in C4. you can not get this info from iLink ($200) but can via pentair's screenlogic2 ($500+).
#Pentair screenlogic troubleshooting serial
of course, you will need a serial connection between your c4 controller and pentiar but everyone added that during construction, right! also would need a $10 rs485rs232 protocol adapter and because i'm running this on my development ea1, i needed a $15 3.5mm to rs232 adapter.Īlso, as noted above, a direct connection gives you access to everything on the bus - iChem, iChlor, detail pump info, etc. by going direct, you can bypass MQTT (your entire network really) and not get caught by a change in pentair's MQTT interface and not require a separate box as noted above. disclaimer is that i have an intellitouch, not an intelliconect, but the intelliconect uses the same serial connection to talk to other pentair equipment. This is what you do, or more specifically, what i'm doing: i wrote a pool proxy driver "bPentair" (not released) with the ability to directly read/write to the Pentair serial bus. part of the issue is the c4 pentair driver (functionality and including an issue or two i have with the c4 pool proxy) and part the pentair iLink. My current pentair integration is probably the weakest and least reliable component in my setup.