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I must be missing something obvious Mark Sekelsky Sun, 13 Jun 1999 11:14:54 -0500

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I am sure that I am missing something obvious here that hopefully somebody
else can catch.  My receiver has some weird IR signal   (both Dan at
Dancraft and Craig at Home Vision gave up on it) that when sent by ECS is
only "seen" about 80% of the time.  I turn the receiver "on" via an
appliance type item (Receiver: On (A4) ).  I have a relay in the back of the
receiver (powered outlet) that goes to a digital input c item (Receiver:
Powertest).

When somebody turns the receiver on/off I have ECS set a true/false item
(Receiver: Flag) as appropriate and start a timer (6").  ECS will send the
IR signal every 6" is the state of Receiver: ON (A4), Receiver:Powertest and
Receiver: Flag are in disagreement.

I also start a two minute timer whenever the state of Receiver: On (A4)
changes to on or off.  The reason for this is that if for some reason ECS
has not been able to turn the receiver on/off within 2 minutes I want to
know about it (ex. the IR emitter has fallen off).  Herein lies my problem.
I have "remmed out" the lines for that announcement because the announcement
is made even if everything is fine.  In fact sometimes the announcement is
made almost immediately.

When I first created this event Receiver:Powertest was a Powerflash module
NOT the digital-input-c item.  That setup worked fine, but this one has been
screwy ever since I changed the item type.

Anybody have any idea what I am missing here?

Mark S

|	BEGINIF    Receiver: delay on  Is Now     0
|	If         Receiver: Flag      Is         True
|	And        Receiver:Powertest  Is         High
|	Then       ECS: Event call     Set        Receiver Part II
|	Then       Receiver: delay on  Set        6
|	ENDIF
|	;If after a delay of 8" the FLAG is FALSE but powertest is ON
|	;resend the signal to turn OFF.
|
|	BEGINIF    Receiver: delay off Is Now     0
|	If         Receiver: Flag      Is         False
|	And        Receiver:Powertest  Is         Low
|	Then       IR Signal           Set        0
|	Then       Receiver: delay off Set        6
|	ENDIF
|
|	;When the receiver is first turned "on" set the flag to TRUE
|	;Start the delay timer and then call the event to send the signal.
|
|	If         Receiver (A4)       Is Now     On
|	Then       Receiver: Flag      Set        True
|	Then       ECS: Event call     Set        Receiver Part II
|	Then       Receiver: delay on  Set        6
|
|
|	;When the receiver is first turned "off" set the flag to FALSE.
|	;Start the delay timer and then call the event to send the signal.
|
|	If         Receiver (A4)       Is Now     Off
|	Then       Receiver: Flag      Set        False
|	Then       IR Signal           Set        0
|	Then       Receiver: delay off Set        6
|
|
|	;Speak a warning if "stuck" trying to turn the receiver
|	;on or off after 2 minutes.
|
|	If         Receiver (A4)       Is Now     On
|	And        Receiver:Powertest  Is         High
|	Then       Timer: Powertest    Set        2
|
|	If         Receiver (A4)       Is         On
|	And        Receiver:Powertest  Is         High
|	And        Timer: Powertest    Is Now     0
|	;Then       MSG: Attention!!    Set        Play->Sp
|	;Then       MSG: Attention!!    Set        Play->Sp
|	;Then       MSG: Powertest      Set        Speak->VC
|	Then       Timer: Powertest    Set        2
|
|	If         Receiver (A4)       Is         On
|	And        Receiver:Powertest  Is         Low
|	And        Timer: Powertest    Is GT      0
|	Then       Timer: Powertest    Set        0
|
|	;If The receiver is turned on at the switch. Shut it off
|
|	If         Receiver:Powertest  Is         Low
|	And        Receiver: Flag      Is         False
|	And        Receiver: delay off Is         0
|	And        Receiver: delay on  Is         0
|	Then       Receiver: delay off Set        6
|
|	;If The receiver is turned off at the switch. Turn it on.
|
|	If         Receiver:Powertest  Is         High
|	And        Receiver: Flag      Is         True
|	And        Receiver (A4)       Is         On
|	And        Receiver: delay off Is         0
|	And        Receiver: delay on  Is         0
|	Then       Receiver: delay on  Set        6

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