HGI80 Windows driver?

[bbstrikesagain]

I have just got domoticz running on Windows 10 and working via the tcc web api. It looks useful, buy local rf is my goal.

I've acquired an HGI80, but the only Windows driver links I can find are broken, and so is the "other" forum that used to be useful. I know the HGI80 should be fine in HA or domoticz on other operating systems, but fur me that's a long learning curve away.

So, asking on the off chance, does anyone on here have Windows drivers or a working link to them?

[Richard]

Not sure I can help with this, however oxygen has a HGI80 running (post here - viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4630&p=13417&hilit= ... 195#p13417), maybe ask them the question?

[DanD]

Hi,

Here's a working link to Windows drivers for the TI3480 device in the HGI80 https://www.par-berlin.com/en/service-s ... -downloads. The link is from a medical device company which has a device using the same chip. Download and unzip this archive, but don't install and simply extract the required usbuart3410.inf file for your Windows version and modify as described in the Domoticz Evohome wiki. I hope this helps and you're able to get your HGI80 up and running OK. Note: the led & button on the HGI80 don't seem to serve any purpose so you have to simply rely on the device appearing successfully in Device Manager once you've tweaked the driver file. Once you've configured Domoticz to use the HGI80 via the correct serial port you should to begin to see all the Evohome devices in your home setup being detected although it usually takes an hour or so depending on device type as some send very few messages.

Good luck!

Dan

[bbstrikesagain]

Thanks you, and hmm, stuck so soon...

I downloaded and extracted the drivers, edited as per instructions, adding the line in all the relevant sections and adding the descriptor too. That all looked okay.

There seem to be eight copies of the inf file in various folders for different flavours but they all seem to be the same file. No obvious windows 10 path so I replaced all the inf files.

Setup runs fine without complaint.

Restarted in test mode, no issue, to overcome the signing/hashing thing. Tying to update the driver to associate the TUSBUART3410 Boot Device it finds the driver for Honeywell HGI80, warns me about its provenance, and when I say yeah, carry on, I get:

"Windows found drivers for your device but encountered an error while trying to install them.
Honeywell HGI80
Driver is not intended for this platform."

Windows 10 Pro. Offered Windows 11, declined thus far.

[DanD]

Hi,

I've just re-tested on another 64bit Win10 Pro machine and I seem to be able to install the driver OK without any problems. Can I double-check the steps you followed to install the driver? These are the steps I followed:

Assuming your running a 64bit machine like me, I edited usbuart3410.inf file in the 64-bit folder from the downloaded zip file and added my device ID as shown below

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%0102.DeviceDesc%=umpusbvista, USB\VID_10AC&PID_0102

to all 4 [TI.Section...] sections of the file as I'm not 100% sure which section is actually needed.

I also added the device description

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0102.DeviceDesc = "Honeywell HGI80"

at the end of the inf file.

After using BCDEDIT to enable test mode, I rebooted the machine into Win10 test mode and then used device manager to locate the HGI80 usb device, selected update driver, chose 'Browse my computer for drivers' and pointed it to the directory containing the modified usbuart3410.inf file. The driver installed OK and I then disabled test mode, rebooted and confirmed that the device was still installed OK.

[DanD]

Hi,

Did you have any luck in getting the windows driver installed successfully for the HGI80? I've got my fingers-crossed that you've now got it working in Domoticz and seeing more detailed information on your Evohome devices.

Regards,

Dan

[Richard]

Hi,

I've just re-tested on another 64bit Win10 Pro machine and I seem to be able to install the driver OK without any problems. Can I double-check the steps you followed to install the driver? These are the steps I followed:

Assuming your running a 64bit machine like me, I edited usbuart3410.inf file in the 64-bit folder from the downloaded zip file and added my device ID as shown below

Code: Select all

%0102.DeviceDesc%=umpusbvista, USB\VID_10AC&PID_0102

to all 4 [TI.Section...] sections of the file as I'm not 100% sure which section is actually needed.

I also added the device description

Code: Select all

0102.DeviceDesc = "Honeywell HGI80"

at the end of the inf file.

After using BCDEDIT to enable test mode, I rebooted the machine into Win10 test mode and then used device manager to locate the HGI80 usb device, selected update driver, chose 'Browse my computer for drivers' and pointed it to the directory containing the modified usbuart3410.inf file. The driver installed OK and I then disabled test mode, rebooted and confirmed that the device was still installed OK.

Thanks for doing that Dan...