There are two routes you can go:1) Buy an Insteon PLM 2413U and hope and pray you get the USB pass through to work with ESXi. If you have one of the cheap USB-to-Serial converters that are handled under by the linux ftdi driver, and you get that to work under ESXi, you are very likely to get the 2413U to show up under /dev/ttyUSB0 as well. Provided you get the modem to show up on the serial port, this is the best supported and tested option under openhab.2) Buy an InsteonHub and connect to it via the network, using the insteonplm binding. Since it's a networked device there are no issues to worry about with the ESXi. BUT: the insteonhub binding does not work with the latest insteonhubs ("2014") anymore. Insteon plugged the raw tcp port that the insteonhub binding was using, so you need to use the insteonplm binding, which has experimental support for the 2014 hub, going through its http interface rather than the raw port. I tested it with my 2014 hub, but not thoroughly, and what I tested (simple switches) worked. However, to set up complex link relationships with my PLM modem I use HouseLinc, and that one DOES NOT work with the latest 2014 hubs, so functionality is limited with approach 2) for lack of suitable configuration tools.Let me know which route you go and how you make out. I'd love to run openhab under a virtual machine, but I'm running XenServer and couldn't get USB pass through to work.
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Old hub: use InsteonHub binding, could potentially also use InsteonPLM binding.
New hub (model "2014"): must use InsteonPLM binding.
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Quite the opposite: the 2014 hub is a big step in the wrong direction: they closed the raw PLM access and it can no longer configured with HouseLinc.
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1) There is actually a chance that the InsteonPLM binding may work with the old hub. We implemented and tested against the http interface of the new hub, which supposedly is the same as the old hub. But not having any test device I did not want to claim it's supported. Can you just try and configure it as a 2014 hub? Would love to know if it works.
2) The much more reliable and performant way of doing this is to use the raw tcp port that is available on the old hubs. The implementation should be fairly easy and I could do it in an afternoon, but I'd need a commitment from you to test the implementation.
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Let me know which route you go and how you make out. I'd love to run openhab under a virtual machine, but I'm running XenServer and couldn't get USB pass through to work.
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I can only give you instructions for gnu/linux type operating systems, since I don't do windows or mac:
In a bash shell, run thes commands:cd build_directory (substitute with your build directory)cd openhabgit checkout insteonplmNow you should see that you are on the insteonplm branch:git branch should return:* insteonplmmasterNow build:
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk (replace with location of your java jdk)mvn clean install
(this will run a long while, and should build the entire openhab)when done copy the insteonplm zip file into the addons directory of your runtime directory:cd whereever_your_runtime_livescp build_directory/openhab/bundles/binding/org.openhab.binding.insteonplm/target/org.openhab.binding.insteonplm-1.7.0-SNAPSHOT.jar addons/then restart openhab
Great!Pull request submitted: https://github.com/openhab/openhab/pull/2590Thanks for turning around so quickly on the test! The importance of competent and diligent testers cannot be underestimated!
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