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Hi, I am using current sensors (connected to input using Digital signal) to update the aircond status to C-Bus UCM (comfort counter logic). From my understanding, the update will only take place when there is a change of hi/lo level , then only it will be transmitted to C-Bus UCM. The problem is there are times when although comfort input is HIGH but somehow Cbus fails to update it. This problem is pretty intermittent.
My question is, what is the best way so that I could program comfort to check the inputs and send to CBus UCM maybe every half an hour.
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You can program a response to check inputs and send to Cbus using Hourly Response under Events > Miscellaneous Events.
Under what circumstances this intermittent problem occurs?
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Which logic should I use to check for the input state? FYI, I never use that response before. Normally i use the zone ON and OFF response and this seems not good enough if we have a third party monitoring panel.. The problem doesnt occur on a specific occasion and time. There were a number of switches that control the airconds and out of a sudden we came across maybe one or two airconds dont show the correct status. And sometimes in a week it worked just fine. Hopefully by adding this, it will sync better with the equipment state. ANd maybe I am going to add a timer in the hourly response so it will execute a couple of times in one hour.
Anyway thanks.
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I\'ve seen this numerous times. My implementation updates CBus on the state of every zone in the house, this I then display on HomeGate. After several long hours I found that diferent firmware versions on the main boards give different results. My workaround to \'sync\' the status of all zones is to do a system reset, this forces Minder Pro to send updates for all the Active zones. On a later firmware, it tries to update ALL the zones - which is good, but then it misses a few (I have 64). My only option was to go back to old firmware and live with the limitations.
I don\'t know of a graceful way to have Minder/Comfort send initial zone updates to CBUS. The documentation says you can but I never got it working. If your aircon is switched Off then On the status will probably be right but then it\'s too late, you need the initial state.
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System reset (to the main board or cbus ucm?)...Correct me if I am wrong but does that mean everytime it is executed, the keypad will prompt \"security off\"? I did think of that at one point but then Ive got a feeling this is not the right way of solving this issue. I know that on the initial state of reset, minderpro will scan the inputs and broadcast this state.
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On the main board. I accidentally got to this when I was working in Configurator and did a system reset, suddenly all the alarm states were updated to the correct state. The only drawback is that if you reset the main board while it is in an armed state, these \"new\" zone states will be interpreted as a change and the alarm will sound. I initially got that also working (to reset while armed) on my old firmware but after playing/upgrading/downgrading that also stopped to work. My response currently only does a system reset if the panel is in an unarmed state.
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Hmm..If we do a reset to the CBus UCM, will it broadcast the security application state to Cbus network? Like armed, disarmed and alarm state? The manual states that only C-Bus lighting group addresses will be retrieved (ON/OFF).
And Chiu, if this is possible, will it be troublesome to add a software reset command to CBUS UCM in Comfigurator?
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Maybe, try and press the reset button on the CBus UCM. I doubt if it will send updates, I checked this a long time ago and I seem to recall that the mainboard is responsible for the status updates. What you need is a way to have the mainboard update CBus with the zone states. Like a Software \'Status Request\'
In the CBUSMAN there is a method to get a simple thing like \'Arm Status\' back to CBus - it\'s written for C-Touch but I can\'t see why it wouldn\'t work for HomeGate. I tried it again last night and it just doesn\'t work. Look at page 29 \'Arm Status\'
I get all sorts of Security Aplication messages back in the HomeGate log so comms do happen but the state doesn\'t change on the CBus Icon. Very frustrating !!!
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It happened to me too. Ive programmed a few days ago for the application 208 ($D0) group $80 to reflect the armed/disarmed state. It does not work on my monitoring panel too.. hmm.
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We will update you on the correct operation in updating the zones and alarm conditions after our verification
