Updating Comfort Zone Status To Cbus

[admin]

If you look at the UCM/Cbus manual, around page 47, there is a section about Security Application Messages.  In the Security Application (hex D0), A0 and A1 are defined as Status Request 1 and 2. the UCM/Cbus should respond with all the current zone status. I dont know how or whether Cgate implements this though

[Ingo]

I will definitely look into this. In the meantime I found a possible workaround. From HomeGate I can select to restore the state after a power failure. From the menu I selected Load Monitor and from there the Restore option. This will save the current state of all my marked security zones and should HomeGate fail it will restore it to the previous known values once power is back on.

In practice I still need to see what implications that will have.

[Ingo]

Looks like the Restore function doesn\'t quite work as I thought.  I opened a window and a door and let HomeGate \'see\' the status. I disconnected HomeGate from the network (C-Gate couldn\'t talk to my devices or Minder). I closed the window and reconnected HomeGate a few minutes later. The windows now shows open instead of closed and the door correctly show open but it;s just a coincidence. The problem is that I cannot get HomeGate to do a status update. I tried the different variations of of app 208 commands but none seem to work. I keep on getting a c-gate message like below:

1/27/2008 6:35:21 PM  C-Gate   : Rx \"[4466] 401 Bad object or device ID: 254/208/160 (Invalid zone address)\"

160 is just one of the different group addresses I tried, they all give the same error.

When I restart C-Gate/HomeGate all the states are gone. The open window shows closed - which is now correct, but the open door now also show closed. Only a system reset om Minder updates the status.

1/27/2008 6:51:36 PM  C-Gate   : Rx \"# security zone_unsealed //MIDSTRM/254/208/13  #sourceunit=18 OID=\"
1/27/2008 6:51:37 PM  C-Gate   : Rx \"application ramp //MIDSTRM/254/1/13 255 4 #sourceunit=18 OID=95155010-ad6d-102a-91bf-93c208b747ad\"
1/27/2008 6:51:37 PM  C-Bus Rx : Ramp Security(1), Group 13 - Family Room Door On over 4s

Any suggestions?

[admin]

We dont know much about CGate so we cannot help
Perhaps you can ask on the Cbus forum http://www.cbusforums.com/forums/