I misunderstood, and using the wrong words in my question made things worse not better.
My setups always had an OC "Adapter" directly connected to my ME Controller. As a consequence, at the very beginning of the script we are getting the component to proxy that communication.
If your OC Adapter is connected to an ME Interface (rather than directly touching the controller) than at the beginning you need to have the component.proxy thing connect to an ME Interface rather than the controller.
Having said that, I do not know if my script will work talking to the ME Interface, becau