System IO and the PC Interface

[MHeaton]

Is there any way I can access System IO variables via the PC interface? I am working at the low level protocol level not CGATE as this is for a Pronto.

What I would love to be able to do is trigger a scene from a touch screen and then 'later' determine which scene is active. The refresh levels command doesn't work for the trigger control group or for a lighting group not assigned to an output device.

Any other ideas would be welcome.

Thanks
Mark

[Darren]

Is there any way I can access System IO variables via the PC interface? I am working at the low level protocol level not CGATE as this is for a Pronto.
No.

What I would love to be able to do is trigger a scene from a touch screen and then 'later' determine which scene is active. The refresh levels command doesn't work for the trigger control group or for a lighting group not assigned to an output device.

If you observe the C-Bus traffic, then the Trigger Group/Action Selectors will tell you which Scene is set. The "Indicator Kill" message will show when a Scene is no longer set.

[MHeaton]

The issue with triggers was that if the Pronto starts AFTER the scene has been set you can't deduce which scene is active. I have resolve this by adding another lighting Group address (mapped to a relay logic node) but not driving a dimmer that stores the trigger level so I can read that once the scene is active.

Thanks
Mark

[Darren]

If you can get the Pronto to set a group address to a particular level, then you could write logic code to see this and broadcast the level (action selector) for each trigger group.