5504GI - Getting There ?

I have found the document "Measurement Application in C-Gate 1.5" which, although old, is probably relevant to what I am trying to do.

I have followed it through and have my own program talking to C-Gate trying to read values from the virtual groups 4, 5, 6 and 7 on the Measurement application. To do the reading, I tried "get 254/15/04 level". This is using the same sytax as for the Lighting application (and is all I have knowledge of).

I started by assuming Application 15 (as per the document) - "401 Bad object or device id 254/15/4 (object not found)".

Closer inspection suggests that the Measurent application is now 228 rather than 15, so I tried again - "Operation not supported by //jubilee/254/228/4 (Parameter level not found)".

That feels like I am very close - is there perhaps a keyword similar to level that I should be using instead?

I have also read that I should perhaps not be using the Measurement application, but should be persuading the 5504 to broadcast on the Lighting application instead. Not sure I can see how to do that (unless it's by setting up all of the bits at the bottom of the Channel tab, but that looks as if it is intended to allow Lighting groups to be triggered at set levels, rather than just broadcasting the value from time to time).

Thoughts welcome. Thanks,

Nick

 

Cracked it, but one more question......

I found "get 254/228/4 ?" which gave me a list of parameters. There was a list of four, so I queried each in turn:

Channels - 0,1,2
EventLevel - 5
State - OK
Name -

As I only have the first three channels set to broadcast, the 0,1,2 bit seemed interesting. So, I tried "get 254/228/4/0 ?" and was rewarded by a list of three possibilities Data, EventLevel and State, of which Data looked the most promising.

I then tried "get 254/228/4/x Data" going through 0, 1 and 2 as the values for x. I got the following results:

0 -- 0, 0, 16, 8562
1 -- 0, 0, 0, 6015
2 -- 0, 0, 26, 28374

I would guess that the first "zero" is the current value (no sensors connected yet, hence all zero). Is anyone able to confirm that and maybe give me a clue on the remaining values? I'm guessing that they are things like scaling value etc.

Thanks,

Nick

 

Thanks Ashleigh - that would be appreciated.

Cheers

 

Thanks Ashleigh - that is a great help.

Not sure about your last sentence -- isn't it the scaling that is coming through as zero (second number), rather than the units (third number)? From a quick check, the units seem to be as I have specified in Toolkit.

 

It's enough to make one cry. So many wonderful units to choose from, many of which are actually USEFUL.... yet Piced/Ctouch "monitor" items let us choose from Voltage, Light-level or Temperature. Period. Ende. Fin.

How about it guys, can we have access to other units. Some of us actually WANT to display things that are useful to us. My water tank level in either metres or thousands of litres, my genset RPM, oil pressure, my windgen output in watts, how much current is being drawn from (or put into) the battery bank, etc.

At the moment, I'm about half way through a project to replace the Ctouch because it's very limited, has an apalling life expectancy (WTF? 100 write cycles??) and has recently (twice in the last 10 days) gone absolutely nuts. Beeping and resetting continuously. Colour touch sounds like it's got more problem again. My B&W is a replacement from the original which died during a program update while about 3 months old.

 

....and I thought you were just making sure I was paying attention!

Thanks Ashleigh!

 

Just had a chance to try this - "MEASUREMENT GET" gives me a "400 Syntax Error", but plain old "GET" works just fine!

This is C-Gate 2.3.25 (build 2057).

Cheers, Nick

 

1000 Cycles?

From my previous experience this was not the information coming out of CIS.

If it is true that would be great.