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| Subject: From: Date: | Re: [ECS] Security-Interface-A Daniel A. Dubay Wed, 1 Jul 1998 18:16:47 -0400 (EDT) |
Thanks for your reply Dan. I set my different sensors to different report timeouts for a test (as recommended by Mark). I believe this is the SPV you refer to. I do not have a panel but only the wireless receiver connected to my computer. I have all my car sensors set to a 10 sec report time too. (The batteries last about two years.) This worked well for me until I upgraded to the recent version of ECS. My previous version was about two years old. I'm not sure why it isn't working correctly now. I haven't tried testing this with a blank ecs.cfg yet. I can't understand how my .cfg file could be causing this anomoly. Dan Dubay On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Dan Carrington wrote: > 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 > > > > > >