I recently moved my vera, and due to the new distance from all my insteon devices, found that I needed to relocate the PLM to a computer closer to the insteon devices rather than letting it hang off my Vera, as I had been doing. So after a bit of work I managed to compile altsteon (or alsteon2, either one) on my Mac, changed the IP of the PLM device in my vera, and tested that it could see and control everything (which it could). So that's all good.
The one thing I haven't been able to solve as of yet, however, is directly issuing commands from my Vera to the altsteon daemon on the remote host. That is, Under the old system I was able to use Lua code like this:
os.execute("echo -e \"12.34.56 set_button_led 1 8\nquit\"| /overlay/sbin/altsteon_cli ")
To set the button state on one of my KeypadLinks. However, that no longer works, because the altsteon_cli only connects to the altsteon daemon on the local host. Is there a way to do the same to a remote host?
Specifically, I'm trying to:
a) set the button state on a KeypadLink, and
b) force poll an insteon device
Thanks!