07-17-2008, 07:39 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-17-2008, 11:57 AM by Nick Locke.)
I am posting this so others have a chance of not being caught out like me. My version of Ultra is quite old and therefore has the known limitation that the Counters below 128 react not only to C-Bus groups 0 through 127, but also react to 128 through 255. This effectively means that I have only half of the Group Addresses within the Lighting Application available for use.
I have recently identified a need to have the status of some Comfort outputs visible to C-Bus. I chose to do this by using responses to switch on Group Addresses in a C-Bus application (57) created for the purpose. My choice of 57 follows Clipsal\'s recommendations.
That all works fine and I can see on/off messages for the outputs.
However, when I try to do things which affect both groups, I have discovered that this code (generated by Comfigurator):
or this code (manually written by me to try and fix the problem):
did not work as expected. In both cases, the second command appears on C-Bus for Application 57 (not 56 as expected).
The fix is very simple - turn off the concatenation check-box against the UCM in Comfigurator. This does not seem to have had any adverse effects, but I don\'t have any really lengthy C-Bus commands going out from Comfort.
This might be a bug, it might be expected behaviour, it might be fixed in a newer UCM version. Thinking about it, it might even be a feature in Comfigurator when it turns \"code\" into \"actions\" and finds adjacent C-Bus commands.
I have found a fix that works for me. As I said, have only posted to avoid anyone else having the same challenge.
I have recently identified a need to have the status of some Comfort outputs visible to C-Bus. I chose to do this by using responses to switch on Group Addresses in a C-Bus application (57) created for the purpose. My choice of 57 follows Clipsal\'s recommendations.
That all works fine and I can see on/off messages for the outputs.
However, when I try to do things which affect both groups, I have discovered that this code (generated by Comfigurator):
Code:
CBUS Off 2 8 0 57
CBUS Off 2 22Code:
CBUS Off 2 8 0 57
CBUS Off 2 22 0 56The fix is very simple - turn off the concatenation check-box against the UCM in Comfigurator. This does not seem to have had any adverse effects, but I don\'t have any really lengthy C-Bus commands going out from Comfort.
This might be a bug, it might be expected behaviour, it might be fixed in a newer UCM version. Thinking about it, it might even be a feature in Comfigurator when it turns \"code\" into \"actions\" and finds adjacent C-Bus commands.
I have found a fix that works for me. As I said, have only posted to avoid anyone else having the same challenge.