My Rivendell works perfectly with a BT ACS 8.2 Plus, including all the GPIO and silence sense capabilities.
Under "Edit TTY's", for entry "Serial0", I have "/dev/ttyS0" in the TTY Device field with 9600, None, 8, 1, and "None" in the rest of the fields Than just selected "Serial0" under the Edit Switcher section for the BT ACS 8.2. Assuming you are actually sending strings out of your serial port (perhaps need to test with a PC on the other end): Note that there are some different modes the BT switcher can be in. Perhaps is this NOT a factory new device? if so note that you can optionally hang several of these things on a single serial line if you enable a special addressing mode. When enabled you then have to specify the address of the unit you want to talk to on the front of each command. You may need to make sure your switcher is NOT in this mode as I'm thinking Rivendell doesn't support this. Also you will find you need to put the switcher into the non-factory-default of "Mix Mode" for it to switch correctly. If in doubt plug the BT switcher into a PC running a serial terminal program you are familiar with and send some raw commands yourself and see what happens. There is a little program called "minicom" available on Linux, but unsure if it is included with the Appliance, if not maybe you can install it with "yum". On Tuesday 20 May 2014 10:37:36 am Nathan Steele wrote: Is there a difference with the PLUS version? I tried controlling it last night with the setting for the ACS 8.2, no dice.... Not sure anything is actually going out the seriel port. the SER light on the switcher flashes at bootup, but then nothing when trying to test my macro cart. I tried playing with the seriel port settings in rdadmin also? not real clear on whether i need to enable the seriel port there to work with the switcher or not. tried both ways. still no dice. not sure what I"m supposed to put in the ttydevice field..... The seriel port is shown by dmesg | grep tty
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