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| Subject: From: Date: | RE: [ECS] HomeVision with ECSW Michael David Mon, 22 Jun 1998 00:20:35 -0400 |
Hi Mark S! Wow! So, you don't have this problem with the Redac as your PLC device. You do nothing other than define your PLC device as the Homevision, and then the problem happens on restart. How bizarre. I guess I won't be trying the Homevision any time soon.... Cheers! Michael David michael@michaeldavid.com -----Original Message----- From: Mark Sekelsky [mailto:Mark@sekelsky.com] Sent: Sunday, June 21, 1998 6:02 PM To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org; michael@michaeldavid.com Subject: RE: [ECS] HomeVision with ECSW Michael, Mark also mentioned that he thinks different IFCs may que differently. It can't be anything I have in an event because it doesn't happen if I start ECSW with the Micro Redac as the PLC device. It is unique to the Home Vision (as PLC station 0) startup. Mark S -----Original Message----- From: Michael David [mailto:michael@michaeldavid.com] Sent: Sunday, June 21, 1998 3:32 PM To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org; Mark@sekelsky.com Subject: RE: [ECS] HomeVision with ECSW Hi Mark S! As Mark said, ECS, during startup, does not turn off appliance modules then set them to their backup state. That is only done for lights. So, if you have appliance modules toggling off and then back on at startup there must be something else causing it. Are you absolutely sure you don't have something in your events to cause this? Cheers! Michael David michael@michaeldavid.com -----Original Message----- From: Mark Sekelsky [mailto:Mark@sekelsky.com] Sent: Sunday, June 21, 1998 4:01 PM To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org Subject: RE: [ECS] HomeVision with ECSW While Michael's suggestion would work (thanks for the thought Michael) it is a little more complex than that. I have 33 appliance items and although most are OFF and not affected there are more being affected than just the "Somebody's home" I have used in my example. Initially I did not understand that it should work in this fashion, but if this is how it works, this is how it works. To your earlier point, Mark, once I get the "kinks" out I shouldn't be shutting down/restarting all that much. Mark S -----Original Message----- From: Mark Gilmore [mailto:markgilmore@cococo.net] Sent: Sunday, June 21, 1998 2:14 PM To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org Subject: Re: [ECS] HomeVision with ECSW I just went thru a fair amount of trouble to verify what I already knew: Regardless of the ifc used, ECS always sends out an OFF command at startup for backed up LIGHT states. For APPLIANCE items, it only sends ON or OFF. I can find nothing out of the ordinary here. There may be a diff in the way ECS queues PLC commands for the diff devices, which could explain what you are seeing on startup. Michael's suggestion is a good one. -- Mark Gilmore Omnipotence http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mark_gilmore_2