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Responses are triggered by Events in Comfort e.g
- Zone activation and Restore
- Alarm activation - each of 31 Alarm Types can activate Responses, eg Intruder, Panic, Power Failure, Low Battery, Armed, Disarmed.
- Time Programs
- On Every Hour or selected hours
- System armed to Away Mode, Night Mode, Away Mode, disarm to Security Off trigger different Responses
- Doorbell Pressed
- Comfort Infrared code received
- Sunrise and Sunset
The Event Triggered Responses are a powerful tool to customise any desired behaviour for a smart home.
A Response consists of a series of Action Codes, each of which performs a specific function, like turning an output on or off, sending an Infrared code to an output, or arming and disarming the security system.
Comfort II Optimum has a maximum of 128 Responses, while Comfort II Ultra has 1023 Responses.
Action Codes are commands in Comfort's programing language which tell Comfort what to do. For example, Output Output001 On is a command for Output 1 ON.
Other examples of action codes:
- Auto-arm security to Away Mode
- Send IR Code 1 to Output 4
- Pulse Output 6 for 2 seconds
- Announce Reminder Message 1 on all keypads
A Response consists of one or more action codes. For example a Response to turn on Outputs 1, 2 and 3 would be:
Output Output001 On
Output Output002 On
Output Output003 On
This Response switches on 3 outputs
Using the Response Wizard
Comfigurator has a Response Wizard which helps to design Responses by allowing you to select Actions and their parameters using a drop-down list.
In Comfigurator, select Events > Responses to open the Responses screen as shown below.
Select one of the Responses and right click to see the available options. Select Response Wizard.
The Response Wizard shows the actions for this response.
The action IRCode IRCode01 to Output001 is seen.
This is an Infrared Command to send the IR Code named IRCode01 to Output001. The IR Code and Output name can be selected from the drop down list in the right pane.
New actions can be added to the Response by selecting Append New Action (to add new action before the current action), or Insert New Action (to add action before the current action)
To Create a new Response, Right click and select Add Response.
Enter a Description of the Response. Press OK. The Response Name is automatically generated.
The Response Wizard will open.
Select Append Action
The Response Wizard categories will be seen as shown above.
Select the Category of the action, eg Security.
This will open the list of Actions belonging to the Security category as seen above.
Select the specific action required
In the example alone, the action Keyswitch Arm has the parameters Away, Night, Day, Vacaction modes for arming the security system.
Press OK to confirm, and add more actions if required.
There is no limit to the number of Actions in a Response. However if there are more than 8 action codes per response, the next Response slot will be used up, and the number of Responses usable will be reduced accordingly. In Ultra there are 1023 Response Numbers with 8 action bytes each. If all Responses require 16 bytes then the number of usable responses will be reduced to 511.
In Comfort Optimum only 127 responses are available each with 6 action bytes.
Comfigurator will handle the numbering of Responses and adjust as required.
Last edited on Sunday Jul 26th, 2015 03:32 pm by slychiu
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