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Re: [ECS] Security-Interface-A Dan Carrington Wed, 01 Jul 1998 12:36:53 -0700

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How do you set the different sensors to different report timeouts.  The
sensors themselves are set to a report in timeout specific with their
locations and required battery life from 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 60
seconds as a "check-in" time.  The master panel is setup to a time that
if any sensor does not respond within that time, the sensor is
considered "not responding".  The panel says hours and asks for three
digits for a number.  I think the factory setting is 4 hours.  If you
append a 1 to the first digit it becomes minutes (not mentioned in the
manuals) so that 110 becomes 10 minutes or 105 becomes 5 minutes.  This
helps us automators.  As to the 10 minute problem you are having with a
5 minute window, I have been told this as a cause for the not responding
state coming after twice the time the sensor has been away.  The SPV
window is a window of time that the sensor has to report.  The panel
divides time into chunks equal to the SPV window.  It then looks for a
report for each sensor at least once within that window.  Say your car
reports in at the beginning of a window, and you then drive away.  The
window of time runs out and the panel is happy because it got a report
from that sensor.  The panel then starts another window of time for
which the panel never receives a signal from that sensor.  After that
window of time runs out, the panel reports a not responding for that
sensor.  Thus, you left 10 minutes before the panel reported you in,
with a 5 minute SPV window.  As to why the system reports over and over,
I do not know.  I have my SPV set to 3 minutes and have all sensors set
to 10 seconds.  The batteries may last a little less, but I get a good
service of the automation knowing when I come and go.  It knows I have
come home usually as I still drive up to the house, but worst case, as I
am getting out of the car to open the door.  The house knows I have left
with a window up to 6 minutes.  My only problems have been as I said
before, sometimes my older sensors are squashed enough by some unknown
signal that they may not bee seen by the system within it's six
minutes.  It has not been enough of a problem to bother me though.

Dan




Daniel A. Dubay wrote:

> I have set the sensors to various report timeouts.  This is a log file
>
> with Jeep = 3min, Maserati = 12 min, and Caravan = 21 min.  The fiel
> was
> made with:
>
> If Jeep in now not responding
> then log-security set jeep
> etc for other vehicles.
>
> 06/30/98  8:41 PM Jeep                   11 Not Responding
> 06/30/98  8:41 PM Maserati               11 Not Responding
> 06/30/98  8:41 PM Caravan                11 Not Responding
> 06/30/98  8:51 PM Jeep                   11 Not Responding
> 06/30/98  8:51 PM Caravan                11 Not Responding
> 06/30/98  9:01 PM Maserati               11 Not Responding
> 06/30/98  9:01 PM Caravan                11 Not Responding
> 06/30/98  9:11 PM Maserati               11 Not Responding
> 06/30/98  9:11 PM Caravan                11 Not Responding
> 06/30/98  9:21 PM Maserati               11 Not Responding
> 06/30/98  9:21 PM Caravan                11 Not Responding
> 06/30/98  9:31 PM Maserati               11 Not Responding
> 06/30/98  9:31 PM Caravan                11 Not Responding
> 06/30/98  9:41 PM Maserati               11 Not Responding
> 06/30/98  9:41 PM Caravan                11 Not Responding
>
> The Jeep left around 9:40.  I don't understand the 10 minute
> interval.  I
> have reloaded interfaces (F7).
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Thanks,  Dan Dubay
>
> On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Mark Gilmore wrote:
>
> > Lower the REPORT TIMEOUT Parameter
> > --
> > Mark Gilmore
> > Omnipotence
> > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mark_gilmore_2
> >

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