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RE: [ECS] HomeVision with ECSW Michael David Sun, 21 Jun 1998 11:46:26 -0400

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Hi Mark S!

I have an idea you might want to try.  In your startup event set a
second-timer to 15 seconds or so.  Then in your event that checks for the
state of "somebody's home", put in a Beginif statement like this:

Beginif Startup Timer is 0
(Your "somebody's home" event lines here)
Endif

This should prevent your event from even looking for a state change while
ECS is starting up.

Cheers!

Michael David
michael@michaeldavid.com


-----Original Message-----
From:	Mark Sekelsky [mailto:Mark@sekelsky.com]
Sent:	Sunday, June 21, 1998 11:35 AM
To:	ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org
Subject:	RE: [ECS] HomeVision with ECSW

It seems to me that ECSW is setting ALL states to OFF not just LIGHT items.
For example, my "Somebody's home" item is set up as an APPLIANCE item.  That
type of IFC does seem to matter as the behavior is very different depending
upon which device I am using.

Obviously there should come a time when I would very rarely need to restart
ECSW and as such this problem won't be a very big deal.  The fact is it's
not a big deal now, just an annoyance.  But between going back and forth
rotating the HomeVision, micro redac and IR Master as well as loading new
versions of ECSW.exe, occasional crashes or needing to access the Home
vision software for infrared signals I  have been doing a fair amount of
restarting.

Mark S.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Gilmore [mailto:markgilmore@cococo.net]
Sent: Sunday, June 21, 1998 1:03 PM
To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org
Subject: Re: [ECS] HomeVision with ECSW


When ECS restores LIGHT backup states on startup, it will
1st turn them to OFF so as to assure a known state. This is
expected, and the same logic applies regardless of the ifc
used. The question is why is ECS being restarted so often
as to make this an annoyance.
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Mark Gilmore
Omnipotence
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mark_gilmore_2

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