I decided to add some pulse counters to my water usage, and always wanted to upgrade to the Brultech GEM which has pulse meter support, so I got a GEM last week and started bench testing it with the driver.  

CQC's documentation is a bit skimpy on what needs to be configured in order for the driver to work.  I put it in the test harness so I could figure out what was going on.  I purchased the wired ethernet version since I had a Cat5 wire from my power center back to my wiring closet where my router is.

Here are some comments:

• It took some time to get a static IP assigned.  You have to first set it as a dynamic DHCP IP address using their network utility.  Once you can access the GEM Setup with that dynamic address, then you can switch it to a static IP with the network utility.
  
• In the GEM Setup, go to Packet Send Menu and make these changes:
  

1. My unit already had real time status turned off (which CQC needs according to the driver docs.)  
   
2. You also need to change the Primary Packet Format to 1: Multi ECM-1240 Simulation.  The driver switches back and forth between ASCII and Binary, and I think having this set initially to Binary, which is what mine was set to, was what caused mine to not connect.   
   
3. In the Adv Menu, I changed the Idle Time to 30 seconds (As per the driver docs)
   

• You cannot be in the GEM Setup mode and get the driver to connect.  You must exit out of it.  This burned me a few times, as only one thing can connect to the GEM.  If I need to get in the GEM Setup, I pause the driver, then access it.  Log out of the setup and resume the driver to get it running again.
  

I'm glad to have found this forum and am hoping for some help from anyone here.  I've used CQC since very early on (wrote a few private drivers; modified a bunch of Dean's version; lots of interface work).  I stagnated on version 5.3.2 because it was just working.  Unfortunately, I finally recently moved my CQC system into a VM.  Well, I knew about Dean shifting it to open source but I didn't realize this shift would invalidate my license and leave me hanging. So now I need some installation files to be able to move up to the open source versions.

Long story short, does anyone have the 5.4.914 and 5.4.917 installation executables?  I'm stuck otherwise since I decommissioned the server I pulled my installation out of.

It also looks like it's going to be time to move on from CQC, which saddens me.  If anyone needs any help with CQC stuff, though, I might be able to pitch in.

Is there a method to pause/resume a driver via events?

I am using the RCS serial driver to run two furnaces on the same RS-485 Bus.  However, sometimes one or both thermostats will drop offline.  

I cannot figure out the cause, but notice loss of connections.  Sometimes the driver restores both thermostats, but other times it will have one or both missing.  The odd thing is that it will only restore one thermostat at a time via a manual pause/resume of the driver.

I probably should look to why the driver doesn't restore both when it regains connection...but this seems like it could be more expedient until I get some available time


I would plan to monitor a specific parameter & if non-existent (fail), then I'd pause the driver....delay, then restart.

Any thoughts?

my CQC server is a secondary computer that I run with a VPN (NordVPN).

I started having issues with CQC admin interface losing connectivity with the server.  I finally figured out that it was directly related to my VPN connection.

Apparently, my CQC instance was using ipv6 to connect...so I disabled it on all of my interfaces...ad it worked...for a while.

I finally got CQC working with the VPN active...by deactivating all of the IPV6 interfaces

however, after an update...CQC stopped communicating when I was connected to my VPN.

I am still in the process of figuring out my way ahead...but just be aware.

Dave

I finally got a separate water meter for my pool autofill/irrigation that is separate from my main water line.  I would like to monitor how much water i use for each.  Is there a water meter that is CQC friendly that I could install and monitor?

Attached is an archived copy of the CQC 6.0.2 Installer

Attached Files

  CQCInstSE_6_0_2.zip (Size: 39.1 MB / Downloads: 2)

I can't seem to find anything on how to restore my CQC configuration from a backup.  I had to reinstall and I'd like to be able to use my old settings.  

I was new to CQC when they shut the site down, but really like its stability vs other options...and want to get this running again.

Thanks for any tips.

I have the email option configured so I can tell when certain things happen within CQC, but unfortunately it stopped working.  I figured it was because mydomain.com was gobbled up by web.com, but after talking to their support, I have it configured correctly.

I figure it has something to do with security, as the SMTP (secure) option is what I was using before, but it looks like my desktop and phone are using STARTTLS.  I have tried the mydomain.com, gmail, and outlook servers, and I no longer can get an email sent to me.  Any thoughts on this, or possibly something I can add to get this feature working again?

Once I had set up NishanF's native Echo setup, it has worked great until now.  

Now it is failing while accepting security context.  I will have to dig around the wayback machine to see if I can find some of the setup info NishanF wrote.  It may be that AWS has changed something on their side to cause the error.  I was using a secure port (non-standard) to send the info back to CQC, but apparently something has changed.

It could also be the CQC machine, but since I have updates turned off, I find it hard to believe something would change there.

I currently have ISY-994i and it works great with CQC.  Since it has been pushed out of favor for new products, what is everyone doing?  I just had to change out my PLM as it was getting somewhat flaky after the recent power outages here.  The new one made everything right. However,  I am worried that the new stuff (Eisy & Polisy) won't give us an option to control with CQC.  Any thoughts?  Mine is working fine now, but I do worry about what happens down the road.