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

Hi excal2,

 

I think you need two entries for the brick_dc in the openhab.cfg and items configuration. Furthermore you need two switches, one to switch on the forward configuration and one to switch on the reverse configuration of the brick.

 

I've planned some enhanced support for brick_dc, but unfortunately this will take some month because currently I've no spare time to implement it.

 

Regards,

Theo

 

 

 

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

Hi excal2,

 

for now there is now other solution, sorry for that. I will have time to work on this issue may be in 2 or 3 months.

 

Sorry,

Theo

 

Ahh that's really disappointing as this was the only reason I bought this device.

 

Is there any plans to implement sooner?

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

Hi Theo

 

Did you get the chance to work on this?

 

Thanks

 

Excal

Hi Excal,

 

thanks for reminding me. I started some work on RED Brick topic. As soon as this work is finished I will continue working on the binding. You will have to be patient for some more weeks.

 

Regards,

Theo

 

Hi Excal,

 

there are good news! There is a beta of the binding which has significantly improved support for the Brick DC.

It comes with support for Dimmer, Rollershuter and Number items. Besides that the speed can also be set using a percent value.

 

You will find a download link and some in this github issue:

https://github.com/theoweiss/openhab/issues/1

 

Regards,

Theo

 

Hi Theo

 

Sorry just seen this , will give this a go tonight to see if it solves my issue.

 

Fingers crossed!!

Hi Excal,

 

these features are released with openHAB 1.7. Therefore just install the newest openHAB release. Since 1.7 you can also control the Brick DC using rules and the new tinkerforge action bundle. Documentation and examples are here at the end of the file: https://github.com/openhab/openhab/wiki/Actions

 

Regards,

Theo

 

Hi Theo

 

This works perfectly :-)

 

Thanks a million for the help

 

Excal