Connecting to CBUS through wiser via a Java App

Java application access to wiser.

Hey guys


I was wondering if anyone out there has had a go at this. I have got some Java code that has zero documentation from github that connects to a CNI.
The wiser exposes a CNI to the network however, as part of the protocol there are three ports that need to be connected to.
10001 for control. that port is open.
And two others.
Command interface is supposed to be 20023/20123(ssl).
Event interface is supposed to be 20024/20124(ssl).

On the wiser the control port is open but the command event interfaces are closed. Did anyone else get this to work ?

When i port scan the wiser 2 i get
Open TCP Port: 80 http
Open TCP Port: 90 dnsix
Open TCP Port: 8336
Open TCP Port: 8337
Open TCP Port: 8888 ddi-tcp-1
Open TCP Port: 8890 ddi-tcp-3
Open TCP Port: 10001 scp-config
Open TCP Port: 10010
Open TCP Port: 20030
Port Scan has completed?



Clearly 80 is for the web front end.
Ive tried 8888 and 8890 (which btw are different from wiser 1)

Does anyone know the appropriate setup for the wiser 2

 

Use wireshark and log the communications with an application you know is working fine, perhaps you can then change your code to suite

 

Maybe I don't quite get what you are trying to do but won't the Wiser be offline if you are using its CNI?

 

From what i understand the wiser 2 has two CNI's one used by the wiser logic and one available for external use.

I want to be able to switch on and off a group from a program (eg a method call) without having a cgate installed on that machine.

 

I very much doubt Wiser 2 has two CNI's but look forward to hearing all about it.

 

be prepared to be very surprised then.......

 

Hi Brad
That would be a good thing.

 

Not sure it is advertised as such. Its so you can use it to config your network without the Wiser going into 'Transparent Mode' and stopping doing its job like the Wiser 1 and 1As did.

all the brochure says is:
Onboard C-Bus connection

Dual C-Bus (internal) connections on one single physical C-Bus connection
Can be used with external CNI if no physical C-Bus connection is available

It has two C-Bus serial numbers in Toolkit, one being the Wiser and one being the CNI. I take the above to say, two CNIs sharing the same physical external plug, with one being dedicated for Wiser function.

 

That is not entirely clear to me but 2 interfaces are a handy thing to have.
Especially if Wiser or something else is using one of them.
Thanks for informing me.

 

and the smoking gun.......

The circuit board has two C-Bus 'stamps' side by side near the one C-Bus connector.




Like I said, it isn't advertised as such but it makes sense in its operation.

 

Brad



I seem to remember you have played with programming these things. Have you done any code to connect to the CNI on the wiser to send group commands ?



Cheers
Stewart

 

Assuming they are really functionally standard sim modules and you can connect to one of them via a socket (like a CNI) then the downloadable C-Bus protocol documents have all the information required.

Start out with the Quick Start Guide to get basic functionality.

Cheers

Rohan

 

Hi Stewart,

Answered this before but post mysteriously isn't here??

No, I have not tried to use the Wiser2 CNI in the method that you are suggesting, sorry.

You can write a program in the logic engine that would allow you to do what is sounds like you are attempting.

There is a good post about using a logic engine to act as a web server (whilst written for the CTC, I have used this basic web server code to great advantage in several Wiser 2s) and then you can parse whatever you send at it in the logic engine.


I also think this post - HTTP control proxy via C-Gate and NodeJS is down the alley you are looking at.

Regards,

Brad