UK Household Automation
28 Feb 05, 10:10 PM
The main stumbling block currently is the channel groupings. When a Logic Group is created on the dimmer modules (and we have at least one group using channels from more than one dimmer) the Touchscreen cannot access either those groups nor the individual channels within them. So no control whatever can be had over those channels, save for through the bus couplers and mechanical switches which seem to be able to work the logic groups just fine.
It is not plausible for us to break up the Logic Groups in this application - obviously one solution is to group the channels by setting them as scenes in the touchscreen which we can only get to work if the channels do not belong to a Logic Group - but then the bus-coupler switches could only address individual channels and we need them to switch groups of channels or there would be hundreds of switches in the walls. And the bus couplers cannot access the Scenes in the touchscreen even though the scenes have Group numbers associated with them.
One possibility is that the Groups are in different Applications, but I did try several combinations, none of which seemed to make any difference. Plus, the Application lists in each of the devices (touchscreen and dimmers) were different, so it seems to me thast these are not being shared either.
Other, incidental annoyances we have found are that the Touchscreen font rendering is apalling. I thought at first that I had just used too small a font (8 point I think) but the opening screen at start up has the same problem (uses the same or smaller fonts) so maybe our screen is bust? I can't see the makers using a font that doesn't work.
Finally the buscouplers will allow individual channels to be grouped locally ('Blocks'), which would go someway to solving our grouping problem except that you can only group output channels already assigned to a switch channel in that coupler .. very limiting indeed. If this allowed multiple outputs to be assigned to each switch we would be home and dry, albeit still a workaround (why can't the touchscreen address the logic groups????)
Cheers
It is not plausible for us to break up the Logic Groups in this application - obviously one solution is to group the channels by setting them as scenes in the touchscreen which we can only get to work if the channels do not belong to a Logic Group - but then the bus-coupler switches could only address individual channels and we need them to switch groups of channels or there would be hundreds of switches in the walls. And the bus couplers cannot access the Scenes in the touchscreen even though the scenes have Group numbers associated with them.
One possibility is that the Groups are in different Applications, but I did try several combinations, none of which seemed to make any difference. Plus, the Application lists in each of the devices (touchscreen and dimmers) were different, so it seems to me thast these are not being shared either.
Other, incidental annoyances we have found are that the Touchscreen font rendering is apalling. I thought at first that I had just used too small a font (8 point I think) but the opening screen at start up has the same problem (uses the same or smaller fonts) so maybe our screen is bust? I can't see the makers using a font that doesn't work.
Finally the buscouplers will allow individual channels to be grouped locally ('Blocks'), which would go someway to solving our grouping problem except that you can only group output channels already assigned to a switch channel in that coupler .. very limiting indeed. If this allowed multiple outputs to be assigned to each switch we would be home and dry, albeit still a workaround (why can't the touchscreen address the logic groups????)
Cheers