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| Posted: Saturday Mar 20th, 2010 10:18 am |
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Chiu,
As requested, let's start a new thread regarding this issue. Please move or link the previous couple of posts here if you can.
I looked at the bus monitor and it only works with serial interfaces, I have a UCM/Ethernet so there is no other way I can get logging results at the moment. Let's first see if I can pickup anything out of the ordinary.
Ingo
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| Posted: Saturday Mar 20th, 2010 11:43 am |
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Could you not set up a response that sets the value of this counter in Comfort.
Then you could invoke that response and:
(a) See the results immediately in the monitor log window in Comfigurator 3.
(b) confirm whether or not my ComfortClient software is capturing on the bus.
Regards
Julian
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| Posted: Saturday Mar 20th, 2010 02:57 pm |
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Julian,
Triggering this from the CBus side gives me conditions I am supposed to get. Like I said earlier, it doesn't happen every time.
Both ComfortClient and Comfigurator receive the counter changes. It's just under certain conditions that the CT8000 command doesn't get through. This is what is taking so much time to debug. I will catch it eventually.....
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| Posted: Thursday Apr 1st, 2010 04:14 am |
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I finally caught it inside the Comfigurator IO Monitor. Below is what I saw...
Cbus Log:
2010/04/01 06:02:35 C-Bus Tx : Set Group 139 - Garage Outside Off (Received from C-Bus/Scene "Perimiter - Off")
2010/04/01 06:02:35 C-Bus Tx : Set Group 207 - Surround Lights Off (Received from C-Bus/Scene "Perimiter - Off")
2010/04/01 06:02:35 C-Bus Tx : Set Group 128 - Open Balcony Off (Received from C-Bus/Scene "Perimiter - Off")
2010/04/01 06:02:35 C-Bus Tx : Set Group 136 - Patio - Garden Off (Received from C-Bus/Scene "Perimiter - Off")
Comfigurator IO Monitor, 1/4/2010.
< CT8B00
< CTCF00
< CT8800
From the above it can be seen that the Cbus side sends four commands. These are all via a Scene to switch my outside lights off at sunrise. From the realtime Comfigurator log there are only three commands that reached the Comfort bus. Strange enough, it's always counter 128 and it's never consistent. It took a whole week since the last 'failure'
Can you guys please check if there is anything that might be causing this? A workaround is to change from counter 128 to 129 but that's not really fixing the problem.
Ingo
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| Posted: Friday Apr 2nd, 2010 02:56 am |
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This may be difficult to reproduce. Have you tried repeatedly triggering the Cbus group address 80 hex to see if the condition can be seen that way?
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| Posted: Friday Apr 2nd, 2010 07:18 am |
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Yes, I did and it always returns the correct values (well, for as long as I toggled the counter value). I'll try again to see if there is an easier way to simulate the problem but I am not very hopeful.
Ingo
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| Posted: Friday Apr 2nd, 2010 07:52 am |
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Ignore my previous post, I finally found the cause. It bothered me why it takes so long to replicate and sometimes it's so quick. I finally found that if counter 128 is ON and I then run both my ComfortClient and CBus application it then triggers. Below is the complete set of events that occur to reproduce this.
In short, set counter 128 to ON, load ComfortClient, or any other software to monitor the counter. Now toggle counter 128 to OFF from the CBus side and see that the very first command does NOT get through to Comfort. All subsequent commands are sent through.
*I did a complete test and it seems to be counters 128,129,131 and 132 that are affected. I am not using counter 130 so I can't say if that one is affected as well.
[09:32:58] + Comfort Client:1.21.1.5
[09:33:02] + Connected
[09:33:24] > LI****
[09:33:25] < LU01
[09:33:27] > M?
[09:33:27] > K?
[09:33:27] > C?65
[09:33:27] > C?66
[09:33:27] > C?67
[09:33:27] > C?68
[09:33:27] > C?6A
[09:33:27] > C?6B
[09:33:27] > C?6C
[09:33:27] > C?6E
[09:33:27] > C?71
[09:33:27] > C?72
[09:33:28] > C?74
[09:33:28] > C?75
[09:33:28] > C?76
[09:33:28] > C?77
[09:33:28] > C?78
[09:33:28] > C?79
[09:33:28] > C?7A
[09:33:28] > C?7B
[09:33:28] > C?7C
[09:33:28] > C?7D
[09:33:28] > C?7E
[09:33:28] > C?7F
[09:33:28] > C?81
[09:33:28] > C?83
[09:33:28] > C?84
[09:33:28] > C?86
[09:33:29] > C?87
[09:33:29] > C?8C
[09:33:29] > C?8D
[09:33:29] > C?F4
[09:33:29] > C?F5
[09:33:29] > C?F6
[09:33:29] > C?FC
[09:33:29] > C?0A
[09:33:29] > C?32
[09:33:29] > C?33
[09:33:29] > C?73
[09:33:29] > C?80
[09:33:29] > C?88
[09:33:29] > C?89
[09:33:29] > C?8A
[09:33:29] > C?8B
[09:33:30] > C?A8
[09:33:30] > C?C9
[09:33:30] > C?CA
[09:33:30] > C?CB
[09:33:30] > C?CC
[09:33:30] > C?CD
[09:33:30] > C?CE
[09:33:30] > C?CF
[09:33:30] > C?D0
[09:33:30] > C?D1
[09:33:30] > C?D2
[09:33:30] > C?D4
[09:33:30] > C?D5
[09:33:30] > C?D6
[09:33:30] > C?D7
[09:33:30] > C?D8
[09:33:31] > C?D9
[09:33:31] > C?DA
[09:33:31] > C?DB
[09:33:31] > C?DD
[09:33:31] > C?DE
[09:33:31] > C?DF
[09:33:31] > C?E0
[09:33:31] > C?F7
[09:33:31] > C?28
[09:33:31] > C?A9
[09:33:31] > Z?
[09:33:31] > z?
[09:33:31] > Y?
[09:33:31] > y?
[09:33:31] > SR01
[09:33:32] > S?
[09:33:32] < M?0001
[09:33:32] < KL00010000
[09:33:32] < C?6500
[09:33:32] < C?6600
[09:33:32] < C?6700
[09:33:32] < C?6800
[09:33:32] < C?6A00
[09:33:32] < C?6B00
[09:33:32] < C?6C00
[09:33:32] < C?6E00
[09:33:32] < C?7100
[09:33:32] < C?7200
[09:33:32] < C?7400
[09:33:32] < C?7500
[09:33:32] < C?7600
[09:33:32] < C?7700
[09:33:32] < C?7800
[09:33:32] < C?7900
[09:33:32] < C?7A00
[09:33:32] < C?7B00
[09:33:32] < C?7C00
[09:33:32] < C?7D00
[09:33:32] < C?7E00
[09:33:32] < C?7F00
[09:33:32] < C?8100
[09:33:32] < C?8300
[09:33:32] < C?8400
[09:33:32] < C?8600
[09:33:32] < C?8700
[09:33:32] < C?8C00
[09:33:32] < C?8D00
[09:33:32] < C?F41A
[09:33:32] < C?F5FF
[09:33:32] < C?F6FF
[09:33:32] < C?FC99
[09:33:32] < C?0AFF
[09:33:32] < C?3200
[09:33:32] < C?33FF
[09:33:32] < C?7300
[09:33:32] < C?80FF
[09:33:32] < C?8800
[09:33:32] < C?8900
[09:33:32] < C?8A00
[09:33:32] < C?8B00
[09:33:32] < C?A800
[09:33:32] < C?C900
[09:33:32] < C?CA00
[09:33:32] < C?CB00
[09:33:32] < C?CC00
[09:33:32] < C?CD00
[09:33:32] < C?CE00
[09:33:32] < C?CF00
[09:33:32] < C?D000
[09:33:32] < C?D100
[09:33:32] < C?D200
[09:33:32] < C?D400
[09:33:32] < C?D500
[09:33:32] < C?D600
[09:33:32] < C?D700
[09:33:32] < C?D800
[09:33:32] < C?D900
[09:33:32] < C?DA00
[09:33:32] < C?DB00
[09:33:32] < C?DD00
[09:33:32] < C?DE00
[09:33:32] < C?DF00
[09:33:32] < C?E000
[09:33:32] < C?F700
[09:33:32] < C?28FF
[09:33:32] < C?A900
[09:33:32] < Z?0000000000007600
[09:33:32] < z?00
[09:33:32] < OK
[09:33:32] < Y?0000000000000000
[09:33:32] < y?00
[09:33:32] < S?00
[09:33:54] < CT80FF
[09:33:56] < CT8000
2010/04/02 09:33:45 C-Bus Tx : Set Group 128 - Open Balcony Off (User Click) <---- This one does not get sent to the Comfort bus.
2010/04/02 09:33:54 C-Bus Tx : Set Group 128 - Open Balcony On (User Click)
2010/04/02 09:33:56 C-Bus Tx : Set Group 128 - Open Balcony Off (User Click)
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| Posted: Friday Apr 2nd, 2010 08:32 am |
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Good work, Ingo. It would have been very difficult for us to duplicate this scnario without this information
What is the firmware for Comfort, UCM and UCM/Cbus that you are using?
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| Posted: Friday Apr 2nd, 2010 10:14 am |
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Comfort II 5.172
UCM/Cbus 5.203
UCM/Ethernet 5.202
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| Posted: Tuesday Apr 6th, 2010 02:37 am |
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Ingo, we have not been able to duplicate this despite using the same firmware as you mentioned.
We set counter 128 to FF (using Cbus), run Wizcomfort, then use Cbus group address 128 to switch off. This sets CT8000
The only reason that Counter 128 does not get changed to 00 is that it was already 00.
Can you repeat your sequence above but before you turn on balcony group address 128 the first time, do a C?80 to query the counter. Counter 128 must have been changed to 00 prior to that due to some other reason
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| Posted: Tuesday Apr 6th, 2010 02:55 am |
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If you mean that you changed the state of the counter to FF in Comfort, and the corresponding Cbus counter was in the opposite state (0), then when you toggle the CBus button to switch to FF, then there will be no Counter Response in Comfort because the counter is already at FF
The Counter report and response happens only if there is a change in value
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set Counter 128 to FF
> C!80FF change counter 128 to FF
< CT80FF is the counter report that Counter 128 changed to FF
> C!80FF change counter 128 to FF again
This time there is no counter report because the counter 128 value was not changed
> CT8000 set counter 128 to 00
< CT8000 report that counter 128 is changed to 00
Does this correspond to what is happening with your setup?
Last edited on Tuesday Apr 6th, 2010 02:58 am by ident
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| Posted: Tuesday Apr 6th, 2010 04:40 pm |
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Ident,
This is what you need to do. I'll explain the tricky part at the end.
1. Set Counter 128 ON from CBus side.
[06:43:18] < CT80FF
2. Check Counter 128 value on Comfort side.
[06:43:23] > C?80
[06:43:23] < C?80FF
3. Do the following command:
[06:43:30] > Z?
4. At his point I Switched Counter 128 OFF from the Cbus side, notice NO corresponding CT8000 command back from the UCM.
5. Do a Counter 128 check on the Comfort side.
[06:43:51] > C?80
[06:43:51] < C?8000
This is the tricky part. Immediately the Counter value changed to what it's supposed to be. Without the receiving CT8000 command my ComfortClient thinks the light is still on. Only a subsequent On/Off toggle will restore the true nature of the light state.
Ingo
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| Posted: Wednesday Apr 7th, 2010 03:27 am |
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Hi Ingo,
I've tried exactly the 5 steps you mentioned but still managed to get CT8000 received by ComfortClient.
One thing I notice is that the latest ComfortClient version posted by Julian is 1.20.2.35 (http://www.comfortforums.com/forum65/1656.html) but you are using 1.21.1.5.
Is there any major differences for the two versions?
Do you know where I can get the same version as yours so I can try to duplicate your problem here?
I've also tried with our Wizcomfort beta (see: http://www.comfortforums.com/view_topic.php?id=1662&forum_id=21), the CT8000 is sent correctly to Wizcomfort when it is turned off from C-bus.
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| Posted: Wednesday Apr 7th, 2010 04:34 am |
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Hendy,
I am using an Alpha version of ComfortClient which is not yet available to everyone. There is a big feature difference between the two versions so watch this space :-). I've also used Comfigurator and the results are similar. The problem is not with the client software monitoring the bus.
It is VERY strange that I can replicate the problem at will and you guys can't. I'll try a last time on my 'Test' system which has only 8 zones, my production system is fully populated with 64 zones.
Ingo
PS. I replaced my UCM/Ethernet with another one and it still does the same, unfortunately I don't have another UCM/Cbus. Give me some time to setup my Test system and I will post the results soon. Last edited on Wednesday Apr 7th, 2010 05:10 am by Ingo
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| Posted: Wednesday Apr 7th, 2010 07:23 am |
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Ingo wrote: Ident,
This is what you need to do. I'll explain the tricky part at the end.
1. Set Counter 128 ON from CBus side.
[06:43:18] < CT80FF
2. Check Counter 128 value on Comfort side.
[06:43:23] > C?80
[06:43:23] < C?80FF
3. Do the following command:
[06:43:30] > Z?
4. At his point I Switched Counter 128 OFF from the Cbus side, notice NO corresponding CT8000 command back from the UCM.
5. Do a Counter 128 check on the Comfort side.
[06:43:51] > C?80
[06:43:51] < C?8000
This is the tricky part. Immediately the Counter value changed to what it's supposed to be. Without the receiving CT8000 command my ComfortClient thinks the light is still on. Only a subsequent On/Off toggle will restore the true nature of the light state.
Ingo
Ingo,
Could it be that in between of those steps above the UCM/Cbus get reset, somehow?
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| Posted: Wednesday Apr 7th, 2010 03:04 pm |
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Nope, not a chance. It's securely mounted inside a panel well hidden from anything.
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| Posted: Wednesday Apr 7th, 2010 06:11 pm |
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Hendy,
These are the tests I did to try and localise the problem:
1. Downgrade the UCM/Cbus to 5.200 - Same result.
2. Disconnect my PAC from the network to eliminate any CBus interference - Same result.
3. Clear my Comfort Configuration - Same result.
and just before I went insane....
4. Connect my existing UCM/CBus to my 'Test' system with 8 zones only. Downloaded my original 64 zone configuration - Working perfectly.
It seems that with a system as fully populated as mine, something goes 'missing' when doing the test procedure stated in an earlier post.
I hope this help you guys simulate the problem. Just a note, I used Comfigurator 3.1.3, in Monitor IO mode, to check the bus messages.
Regards,
Ingo
PS. Julian, your Client is working as designed, even an earlier release showed me what Comfigurator showed.
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| Posted: Thursday Apr 8th, 2010 01:25 am |
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We had better duplicate your full configuration. Can you send your cclx file to support@cytech.biz
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| Posted: Tuesday Apr 13th, 2010 12:57 pm |
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I can report that we have managed to duplicate your problem now using your cclx file.
The number of slaves must be 3.
Set Cbus group addresses 80H and/or 81H on
do Z? on the UCM
C?80 and C?81 will show that they are ON (FF)
Now switch off group addresses 80H and 81H
There will be no report CT8000 and CT8100
However the counters 80H and 81H have the correcct values 00, but they are not reported by the UCM for some reason
We are now investigating this curious incident
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| Posted: Tuesday Apr 13th, 2010 03:18 pm |
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This is indeed good news. Remember that counters 128 - 133 exhibit the same symptoms. The rest seems to work fine.
Ingo
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