2 actions off 1 press

Hi all,

I have a quick question that a customer has presented me with.

We have a 12ch relay module controlling 6 electric windows in a house. it uses one pulse to open, and another to close, so it is 2 contacts per window.

my question is, how/can we program a push button to pulse 1 channel to open, but then a second channel to close? Ie. 1 button to operate the window apposed to 2 buttons.

The way it is all wired, dry contacts were the only option to control these as blind control modules would not suit.

Thanks in advance.

 

You're asking for 1 button that toggles and "on" means Group A gets pulsed for X seconds but "off" means Group B gets pulsed for X seconds? If that is correct then you'll need something with a Logic Engine to do that so a PAC, Touchscreen or Wiser is needed.

 

Thats correct!
There is a wiser on this installation, so i could use that some how?

 

You can use the logic engine inside the Wiser to do it. The wizard should cover everything you need for this. The resulting code will be similar to:

Code:

once (GetLightingState("Blind Control Group") = ON) then
begin
  PulseCBusLevel("Local Network", "Lighting", "Blind Actuator A", 100%, 0, "0:00:02", 0%);
end;
once (GetLightingState("Blind Control Group") = OFF) then
begin
  PulseCBusLevel("Local Network", "Lighting", "Blind Actuator B", 100%, 0, "0:00:02", 0%);
end;

You'll need a copy of that for each of the blinds with the appropriate group names changed. If it isn't in the Lighting application then you'll need to change that as well.

 

Great!! Thank you for that!
I will give it a go.

 

The above worked fine!,
now it gets a little more complicated...(for me) he wants to be able to do the same task as above, but through the use of DLT's. do you know how i can identify the individual buttons that are pressed on one? it seems much more complex, but i am sure that each button must be giving out a unique signal.

Any ideas?

 

Really dude? If you cant work that out you should not be working on/programming a cbus system in my opinion..

For the sake of the spirit of the forums:
Set the dlt button to the 'blind control group' set function to on/off.. When they press dlt switch to on blind will go up, when then switch dlt switch to off blind will go down..

 

Thank you for your witty remark...
I thought this forum was in part, for exactly this kind of help.

I have already tried the above, but it did not follow the logic as it did on the press button. hence my question as to whether or not the programming is different when using a DLT.