Hello Michelle,
As said earlier, I have build X10 units in the past (light controllers, sensors, X10 modem, see attached pictures). These were build with members of the Microchip PIC family. As controller for my Home Automation hardware, I?m using a program called HomeRun (http://homerun.sourceforge.net open source, OSGi, Java based). X10 having its shortcomings, I started looking to Zigbee hardware/firmware. I bought a development kit from Digi (Xbee units). With the help of the Andrew Rapp driver (http://code.google.com/p/xbee-api/) I was able to communicate with a ?ultrasonic wind measurement? unit. A picture of the setup is included. I added ZCL support classes to the Rapp driver, and wrote PIC firmware to respond to the ZCL commands. I hoped for 2 things: 1) That Digi would support the Home Automation profile in the near future. Up till now there is no sign of this going to happen. As also ZDO support is minimal, it is nearly impossible to build HA profile compatible products based on XBee hardware. 2) That Richard Rogers, the developer of HomeRun, would include support for Zigbee (based on XBee hardware) in his software. Due to 1), this is not going to happen too! At this moment, the hardware/firmware of TI in combination with your effort is much more promising than the XBee products. As I?m not familiar with the TI line of products and development tools, it takes some time to find the best way to continue. Maybe someone can comment on the next statements concerning the TI offering: 1) The CC2530/CC2531 controller is currently the best TI Zigbee platform to use. 2) The dongle with the CC2531 is currently the best way to achieve a PC interface (?real? USB interface !!) 3) The ZNP stack offers a flexible way to develop Zigbee hard/software. The easiest way is to do that is using TI controllers, but it is probably also possible to do that based on Microchip PIC controllers. 4) From TI application note (Creating <http://focus.ti.com/lit/wp/slyy022/slyy022.pdf> a ZigBee? Smart Energy Device with the MSP430F54xx and the CC2530-ZNP) , it appears that I should buy the <http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/cc2530dk.html> CC2530 Development Kit (which includes the CC2531 based dongle) and the <http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/cc2530emk.html> CC2530 Evaluation Module Kit . Costs: $299 + $99. 5) The Stack SWRC126.zip (http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/z-stack.html) supports the HA and SE profile. The IAR EW8051 7.60 is needed to be able to change the stack, though I see no reason to be able to change it. Furthermore: Using the dongle and the Zigbee4OSGi bundle, I should be able to view/analyze the traffic between my XBee units. I also should be able to send ZCL commands to a Xbee unit (once support for the CC2530 is in place to do that). Kind regards, Han Van: Michele Girolami [mailto:Michele.Girolami at isti.cnr.it] Verzonden: woensdag 30 maart 2011 17:41 Aan: Han Alink CC: ZigBee 4 OSGi Developer Onderwerp: Re: [zb4osgi Dev] Next development steps - how to share experience No problem Han. So now you can start playing with ZBee4Osgi. But one more question... maybe I forgot. Do you have any TI hardware? Il giorno 30/mar/2011, alle ore 17.33, Han Alink ha scritto: I finally ran step 6 and ?? SUCCESS. I must have done something wrong during earlier runs. Sorry about having bothered you with this. Thanks for your help so far. Han Hello, Here are the log files of the steps 3, 4 and 5 Regards, Han Van: Michele Girolami [mailto:Michele.Girolami at isti.cnr.it] Verzonden: dinsdag 29 maart 2011 17:41 Aan: Han Alink CC: dev at zb4osgi.aaloa.org Onderwerp: Re: [zb4osgi Dev] Next development steps - how to share experience Hi Han, no problem. Now It's strange because I've compiled the whole project form stretch also removing the .m2 directory. I'll suggest you to: 1)run mvn clean from the trunk and remove your .m2 directory (backup if necessary for your purposes). 2)download all the code of ZBee4OSGi in order to have a similar dir. strucure: ZB4OSGi releases sandbox trunk website 3)go to ZB4OSGi\trunk\externals\bundles\rxtx and run the following command: mvn install 4)go to ZB4OSGi\trunk\externals\libraries\trove4j and type the following commands: 4.1)mvn install:install-file -DpomFile=pom.xml -Dfile=trove.jar 4.1)mvn install:install-file -DpomFile=pom.xml -Dfile=trove-javadocs.jar 4.1)mvn install:install-file -DpomFile=pom.xml -Dfile=trove-sources.jar 5)go to ZB4OSGi\trunk\externals\bundles\trove4j and run the following command: mvn install 6)go to: ZB4OSGi\trunk and type mvn install For your information the problem is related to the trove4j library that one of the bundle of ZBee4OSGi (ZigBee Dirver) is not able to find within the .m2 local repository. Let me know. Regards. Il giorno 29/mar/2011, alle ore 17.29, Han Alink ha scritto: Hello Michelle, Thanks for your help and patience! But ?. I followed your instructions, but still got the same error message. I did not have the software installed in the directory ZB4OSGi\trunk but in ZB4OSGi (without the trunk subdirectory). I changed that, reloaded from your repository, and again followed all the steps. Still got the same error message. I have included the log file. Hope I don?t take too much of your time!? Kind regards, Han Van: Michele Girolami [mailto:Michele.Girolami at isti.cnr.it] Verzonden: dinsdag 29 maart 2011 9:30 Aan: Han Alink CC: <mailto:dev at zb4osgi.aaloa.org> dev at zb4osgi.aaloa.org Onderwerp: Re: [zb4osgi Dev] Next development steps - how to share experience Hi Han, In order to make everything clear: 1)go to: ZB4OSGi\trunk and type mvn clean Then: 2)go to your .m2 directory (usually located in your home user directory e.g. c:\Documents and Settings\userX\.m2 and remove manually the sub-directory .m2\repository\org\aal-persona 3)go to ZB4OSGi\trunk\externals\bundles\rxtx and run the following command: mvn install 4)go to ZB4OSGi\trunk\externals\libraries\trove4j and type the following commands: 4.1)mvn install:install-file -DpomFile=pom.xml -Dfile=trove.jar 4.1)mvn install:install-file -DpomFile=pom.xml -Dfile=trove-javadocs.jar 4.1)mvn install:install-file -DpomFile=pom.xml -Dfile=trove-sources.jar 5)go to ZB4OSGi\trunk\externals\bundles\trove4j and run the following command: mvn install 6)go to: ZB4OSGi\trunk and type mvn install In you are still not able to compile the project, I'll suggest you to: 1)backup your .m2 directory 2)empty your .m2 directory 3)restart with the previous 6 steps (from 1 to 6) Regards. Il giorno 25/mar/2011, alle ore 19.26, Han Alink ha scritto: Hello Michele, The First 2 Maven runs finished without errors. The last one (the main one) still gives an error. I hope I don?t consume too much of your support time with this kind of problems. Nevertheless, thanks for your help. I included the log file. Regards, Han Van: Michele Girolami [mailto:Michele.Girolami at isti.cnr.it] Verzonden: vrijdag 25 maart 2011 17:11 Aan: Han Alink CC: <mailto:dev at zb4osgi.aaloa.org> dev at zb4osgi.aaloa.org Onderwerp: Re: [zb4osgi Dev] Next development steps - how to share experience Hi Han, in order to complete the procedure you need also to perform manually 2 operations: 1)move to ZB4OSGi\trunk\externals\libraries\trove4j and run the following command: mvn install 2)move to ZB4OSGi\trunk\externals\bundles\rxtx and run the following command: mvn install and... 3)move to ZB4OSGi\trunk and run mvn install Regards. Michele. Il giorno 24/mar/2011, alle ore 15.52, Han Alink ha scritto: Hello Michele, After the update, Maven is running almost to the end I think. I get a warning and an error about the rxtx jar. I again included a log file. Thanks for your help so far, Han Van: Michele Girolami [mailto:Michele.Girolami at isti.cnr.it] Verzonden: donderdag 24 maart 2011 10:40 Aan: Han Alink CC: <mailto:dev at zb4osgi.aaloa.org> dev at zb4osgi.aaloa.org Onderwerp: Re: [zb4osgi Dev] Next development steps - how to share experience Hi Han, As you probably already know <http://zb4osgi.aaloa.org/redmine/projects/zb4osgi/wiki/Tutorial> here you can find an initial tutorial supporting the start-up phase. Actually exist 2 different approaches in order to start-up with ZBee4OSGi: 1)From the source repository -> download the code, compile it and run it 2)From the release -> download it and lunch it If you are not yet familiar with Maven and you want to use ZBee4OSGi I would suggest you to adopt the 2 way, <http://zb4osgi.aaloa.org/redmine/attachments/download/38/zb4osgi-0.1.0.zip> here you can find the all-in-one package ready to be unzipped and run. Otherwise if you want to build your own the code you have to download it and use maven. I suppose you' ve already downloaded the code and set-up maven tool (in case please refer to Maven official web page), now you should have this dir. structure: ZB4OSGi releases sandbox trunk website 1)From the ZB4OSGi directory update the source code with svn up (or graphically) 2)Move to ZB4OSGi\trunk and run the following command mvn install. I've just made few changes to the trunk in order to have a running configuration. Now you should be able to compile all the bundles. Regards. Michele. Il giorno 23/mar/2011, alle ore 11.21, Han Alink ha scritto: Hello Michele, >From the TI documentation I understand that the CC2531 dongle uses the CC2530 >chip. TI now also offers a mini development kit ($99,-): http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/CC2530ZDK-ZNP-MINI As I want to continue to put effort in Home Automation hard- and software, I am going to buy this development kit, unless you think this is not the right kit. I downloaded your software, but running maven generates errors. This probably has to do with the OSGi environment not being installed. I have to look into this. I also downloaded you?re the release including the OSGi environment; this one is running, but lacks the dongle of course. Kind regards, Han Alink Van: Michele Girolami [mailto:Michele.Girolami at isti.cnr.it] Verzonden: maandag 21 maart 2011 18:50 Aan: Han Alink CC: <mailto:dev at zb4osgi.aaloa.org> dev at zb4osgi.aaloa.org Onderwerp: Re: [zb4osgi Dev] Next development steps - how to share experience Hi Han, I'm Michele and actually I'm also involved with the development activities related to ZBee devices. TI offers the <http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/cc2531emk.html> CC2531 USB evaluation Module Kit for about 50? dollars, we had the chance to obtain one copy of it for free but only for research purposes. If you have intention to keep developing with TI development kit it could be an option, but please consider that you also need the license for the compiler in order to build existing/custom firmware (a 30-day free license can be easily obtained). Our intention is to replace the old and buggy CC2480 with the new CC2531 but, as Francesco said, we was planning to re-start around May. In this direction we are opened to different USB dongle that can be "easily" integrated with the stack, I don't know if you have some expertise with USB ZBee dongle...By googling we found different USB ZBee dongles, but we don't know about the necessary effort to provide a running and stable replacement for CC2480. Moreover I've read that you also have some experiences with the Rapp driver, ZBee4OSGi actually exploits such a library ( <http://zb4osgi.aaloa.org/redmine/attachments/36/ZigBee_Basedriver-_V2.pdf> Here you can have a perspective of all the bundles building the project, see slide n. 17 it is integrated within CC2480 Data Link Protocol Bundle) so if you've already experienced it could be a good starting point. Best regards. Il giorno 19/mar/2011, alle ore 13.19, Han Alink ha scritto: Hello Francesco, I have been working on Home Automation (hardware) development for several years (as a hobby). I have mainly developed hardware based on the X10 protocol (sensors, light controllers, modem ?). In 2009 I bought a XBee development kit. I used the Java based drivers form Andrew Rapp (http://code.google.com/p/xbee-api/) on the PC side. I studied the ZCL documents from the Zigbee alliance and extended the Andrew Rapp driver with classes for the exchange of ZCL frames. On the other side, I used a PIC based design to receive and react to the ZCL frames. As I?m not a programmer, I?m afraid I?m not able to come up with something that is fully compliant to the Home Automation profile. Another problem is the limitations of the XBee hardware platform. The hardware does hardly provide support for ZCL/ZDO messages; almost everything has to be handled by the PIC processor. Recently I found your project website. I have not yet downloaded the software as I have a few questions. Hope you will answer them: - The hardware you use is from Texas Instruments. You are probably aware of the fact that on the TI website, the CC2480 is not recommended for new designs. What device are you recommending now? - Did you look into the XBee hardware? - Did you develop a ZCL XML format/editor? Kind regards, Han Alink The Netherlands _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list <mailto:Dev at zb4osgi.aaloa.org> Dev at zb4osgi.aaloa.org <http://zb4osgi.aaloa.org/mailman/listinfo/dev> http://zb4osgi.aaloa.org/mailman/listinfo/dev <log2.txt> <log3.txt> <log4.txt> Michele Girolami ISTI - Area della ricerca CNR via G. 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