SmartBus Fork

Node.js implementation of HDL SmartBus protocol http://hdlautomation.com.

Why Fork?

When someone creates something great, why re-invent the wheel? The original creator (caligo-mentis) has done a great job of this library - but I needed some additional functionality which we couldn't agree on how it was implemented. The vast majority of caligo-mentis/smart-bus repo is untouched apart from:

• sendAs function - A function that adds the ability to send a message on the bus as any address simply by passing the first argulment as a string (eg 1.50). This is useful when crafting replies to physical bus devices that must appear to come from a different device - my original use for this was the HDL Dali module didn't correctly send status updates - so I used sendAs to impersonate the Dali module and send the status updates. Yes, this could be achieved with the new multi-bus approach, but I wanted a simple in-line ability to send as anything.
• 0x0033 parser to enable display of channel status requests
• 0xE012 parser/encoder for panel brightness and lock commands
• 0xE14E parser/encoder for panel button colour.

Initialization

Create instance of SmartBus connector

var SmartBus = require('smart-bus');

var bus = new SmartBus({
  device: '1.50',           // Connector address in HDL network (subnet.id)
  gateway: '192.168.1.250', // HDL SmartBus gateway IP
  port: 6000                // and port, default: 6000
});

Connector address could be defined either as string in device property, or as separate properties subnet and id. In addition to passing configuration as an object, you can use a url string:

var bus = new SmartBus('hdl://[email protected]:6000');

HDL gateway port also would be used as listening port of udp server to receive broadcast messages.

Multiple gateways

If you have several physical HDL gateways create Bus instance for each:

var firstGateway = new SmartBus('hdl://[email protected]:6000');
var secondGateway = new SmartBus('hdl://[email protected]:6000');

Alternatively UDP broadcasting can be used if gateways sharing same network. To do this create Bus instance with broadcast address as gateway IP and enable broadcast mode:

// Bus instance with broadcast address as gateway IP
var bus = new SmartBus('hdl://[email protected]:6000');

bus.on('listening', function() {
  bus.setBroadcast(true);
});

Receive commands

Add handler to intercept all commands across bus

bus.on('command', function(command) {

  // Integer with command operation code
  command.code;

  // Device objects
  command.sender;
  command.target;

  // Object with decoded data or raw buffer
  // if data can not be parsed automatically
  command.data;

});

Handlers can be added for broadcast messages or specific commands

bus.on('broadcast', function(command) { ... });
bus.on(0x0032, function(command) { ... });

Listen for commands from specific device

var sensor = bus.device('1.20');

sensor.on(0x1647, function(data, target) { ... });

Send commands

Use connector to send commands

bus.send('1.4', 0x0004, function(err) { ... });
bus.send('1.4', 0x0031, { channel: 1, level: 100 }, function(err) { ... });

Or use device object

var logic = bus.device('1.10');

logic.send(0xE01C, { switch: 1, status: 1 }, function(err) { ... });

Both send methods accepts raw Buffer as data object. In case if data object can not be encoded error will be passed into callback.

DSL

Initialize channel object

var dimmer = bus.device('1.4');
var spotlights = dimmer.channel(2);

Listen to channel status event

spotlights.on('status', function() {
  console.log('Spotlights level is %s', spotlights.level);
});

Set device channel level value to 100 in 5 seconds

spotlights.control(100, { time: 5 }, function(err) { ... });

control function will send 0x0031 command into bus.

Graceful shutdown

Underlying UDP socket can be closed using close method:

bus.on('close', function() {
  console.log('HDL Bus is closed');
});

bus.close();

Bus will close UDP socket on error automatically so it would be useful to attach error event handler and restart process if needed.

var error;

bus.on('error', function(err) { error = err; });

bus.on('close', function() {
  // Shutdown process with error code
  process.exit(err ? 1 : 0);
});