ad2usb plugin discussion

I totally agree. The forums for some plugins are set up as you suggest. Oh well.

[jay (support)]

I totally agree. The forums for some plugins are set up as you suggest. Oh well.

Plugin developers can organize their forums however they wish. They can't directly create subforums but all they need to do is request one and we'll create it for them.

I totally agree. The forums for some plugins are set up as you suggest. Oh well.

This is what it is. I wrote this plugin because I needed it for myself. Since it appeared to meet some other people's needs. I shared it.

I earn nothing from this (and do not wish to). So, the effort it gets is = the effort I have available. At this point, especially given the low amount of traffic in this topic. I prefer to leave it as it is.

OTOH, If someone else thinks they can do a better job developing, maintaining and supporting a plugin for the AD2* products, I welcome you to do so. I would have no problem with competition, and if it were better than my efforts, I might use it myself.

I totally agree. The forums for some plugins are set up as you suggest. Oh well.

My comment above pertained to the structure of the community forum for the plugin (a single l-o-n-g thread rather than individual topic threads) and not the plugin itself. It is challenging to search for issues, which leads to redundant issues being reported, and handholding (frequently from berkinet) required for most new setups.

The ad2usb plugin itself, once set up, is one of the most reliable in my system. It pretty much always just works, which is a credit to the developer.

PS - I did offer quite awhile ago to help improve the setup complexity by trying to update the plugin doc. The problem with that was as soon as I dug into the doc I quickly realized that my knowledge and setup only scratches the surface of what the plugin can do, and I therefore wasn't qualified to do anything with the doc.

...My comment above pertained to the structure of the community forum for the plugin (a single l-o-n-g thread rather than individual topic threads)...

You were clear. Sorry if my response was not. Maintaining a more complex forum thread structure is not something I am currently interested in doing. In any case, I really don't know how I could break out sub-threads anyway... since most of the issues here deal with getting the plugin installed or suspected bugs.

Looking for some ideas. I've implemented variables to set door codes using the Z-wave Lock Manager plugin, and it works well by embedding variables (%%v:xxxx...x%%) in the command strings. I tried a similar set up with the ad2usb plugin so that when I change the lock code variable, it not only changes the codes in the door locks, but also changes the security codes on the Vista alarm system. The alarm system portion does not seem to work. I'm assuming that the ad2usb plugin does not support embedded variable references within a "Write to Panel" "text to send" string?

Looking for some ideas. I've implemented variables to set door codes using the Z-wave Lock Manager plugin, and it works well by embedding variables (%%v:xxxx...x%%) in the command strings. I tried a similar set up with the ad2usb plugin so that when I change the lock code variable, it not only changes the codes in the door locks, but also changes the security codes on the Vista alarm system. The alarm system portion does not seem to work. I'm assuming that the ad2usb plugin does not support embedded variable references within a "Write to Panel" "text to send" string?

Variable substitution is not currently supported. I plan to do some work on this plug-in over the winter and I’ll put that on the list.

Thanks for the quick response and your consideration of a potential update to the plugin. Happy New Year!