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Hi Theo This works perfectly :-) Thanks a million for the help Excal

Hi Theo Sorry just seen this , will give this a go tonight to see if it solves my issue. Fingers crossed!!

Hi Theo Did you get the chance to work on this? Thanks Excal

Hi Theo Considering that all I now need is to control the direction of a dc motor , is there any other way that I can achieve this , maybe with stepper motor or a relay brick? As I'm using openhab this will control the time of the motor run. Just wondering if there is another solution to the problem. Any info is greatly appreciated Thanks Excal

Ahh that's really disappointing as this was the only reason I bought this device. Is there any plans to implement sooner?

Hi Theo Thanks for that , I have tried putting two configs in the openhab.cfg but each time I add the 2nd one in the binding seems to throw an error, i guess it cant allow 2 configs for the same uid . Is there any other way I can get this to work? Many thanks Excal

I have a tinker forge dc brick , but I need to have it in two states , forward and reverse based on a switch. I can set it up in the openhab config but im not sure how to setup a second instance with a reverse velocity. Any help is appreciated Thanks Excal

Thanks for the help , might stick with the DC brick as then I can expand them with a light sensor bricklet , which may be useful, instead of getting a masterbrick + ethernet + DC brick , I'm going to use the cat5 to extend the usb , once its powered it should be ok , as I've used that in the past with other USB devices. Thanks for all the info. excal

Sounds good the only issue would be that I would lose the reverse/forward function on each blind ? Correct?

thanks for the quick reply , 6V motors running at about 40mA. Just for controlling blinds , open close so its quite simple use. how far from the PC can the brick be? I have cat5 cabling to the motor at the moment and was hoping to use this to link the usb to the PC from the brick. Is this possible? Thanks in advance Excal

Hi All just found your site today , I'm trying to construct an automated blinds controller, i was hoping to use the DC brick to control the blind, as the motor will just be on in forward and on in reverse. At the moment I have the correct motor but am just operating it with on/off switch without a reverse. I have a question , as I'm an OpenHab user, is it possible to send the forward/reverse commands to the DC brick from OpenHab? Just wanted to check this before ordering , as otherwise it looks like the perfect solution. one other question , if I had 4 of these motors , and all i wanted to control was forward/reverse and duration , what would be the best brick to use, i would have wires to all motors back to a central point. Any help is very much appreciated kind regards Excal