UCM/CBUS stops broadcasting Zone Statuses

[Howser]

UCM/CBUS firmware 6.011
Utra firmware 7.022

I use a C-bus PAC controller to do most of my lighting logic.

At times, lights would not turn on/off as I would expect and initially I thought my PICED logic was at fault. After months and months of investigating, I noted that there are times when Toolkit would not show any change in Comfort Zone Statuses (Application 001 & 208) as the UCM did not transmit the statuses.

When the UCM is in this bad state, the Alarm status changes (Day,OFF, Night, etc) are transmitted, only the Zone Statuses are affected. When this happens, disconnecting and reconnecting the UCM seems to fix the problem.

Not sure when or what may be causing this. I\'ve had to disconnect and reconnect the UCM about 3 times this month. After reconnecting, everything seems to start working as desired for a while till the next disconnect.

[ident]

When you say disconnect the UCM do you mean disconnect from the 4 way comfort cable or disconnnect the Cbus cable?

Can you try upgradng to Cbu 6.083 as there is some changes to the zone application in this version as well as other improvements

see http://www.comfortforums.com/forum85/3192.html

[Howser]

[user=86]ident[/user] wrote:

When you say disconnect the UCM do you mean disconnect from the 4 way comfort cable or disconnnect the Cbus cable?

Can you try upgradng to Cbu 6.083 as there is some changes to the zone application in this version as well as other improvements

see http://www.comfortforums.com/forum85/3192.html

I did both initially (Comfort and Cbus), and discovered later that removing the Cbus cable would sort the problem.

I will load Cbus 6.083 and let you know my findings.

[Howser]

The problem re-occurred. I disconnected the CBus cable and re-connected the cable to get things back to working order.

[ident]

Is that with Cbus 6.083?

[Howser]

[user=86]ident[/user] wrote:

Is that with Cbus 6.083?

Yes, that\'s with CBus 6.083.

[ident]

We have not been able to duplicate this problem with your file

Do you recall any circumstance which coincides withe the occurence of the problem ?

Otherwise you can do a Reset UCM for the Cbus UCM ID by time program each day or so
That may prevent it from re-occcuring

[Howser]

[user=86]ident[/user] wrote:

We have not been able to duplicate this problem with your file

Do you recall any circumstance which coincides withe the occurence of the problem ?

No, and usually it is only when the motion controlled lights stop working (at night) that I start investigating and chances are it might have been during the day when it the UCM stopped broadcasting.

[user=86]ident[/user] wrote:

Otherwise you can do a Reset UCM for the Cbus UCM ID by time program each day or so
That may prevent it from re-occcuring

Will try that and report back.

[Howser]

Two days ago, I was about to announce that this problem seems to be resolved, but decided to wait till the last day of the Month.

Sadly, last night I had to reset the UCM as the problem occurred. At around 11 am today, the issue re-occurred.

I can confirm that it was not caused by heavy traffic (network), I was the only person in the house. I was monitoring things on Clipsal\'s Toolkit, and noted that the UCM stopped broadcasting.

[Ingo]

Howser,

If you perhaps suspect H/W then I have a spare SIM module (1223/7) you can try in your existing UCM. You can run it for a month or two to see if it makes any difference. You would just need to reconfigure it using Toolkit.

PM me if you are interested.

Ingo