Advanced features on CTouch (Mono) required

Hi all

I have to program a CTouch panel together with a Comfort Minder panel to achieve the following:

I'm controlling a clients 5 irrigation zones through CTouch and Minder, 5 c-bus on/off buttons on the touchpanel switches on/off 5 groups which are in turn read by Minder as 5 counters, which activates/deactivates the Output wired to that specific irrigation zone.

What the client wants is to have the 5 buttons to select a zone, and then an up/down button to increment/decrement a timer (0 - 60minutes), a 'timer/clock' component that indicates the selected time and a stop/start button. So basically he wants a variable timer for his irrigation system, on the CTouch panel. He also wants additional intelligence and feedback, e.g. the timer must then visually count down till 0 and deactivate the output, the 5 zone butons must have an interlock-type feature where only one can be active at any given moment.

This seems like quite a feat, if at all possible. Can anyone steer me into some direction?

Thanks
RH

 

Bump!

Hi all. Have been searching for something like this and this is all i have found.
I want to do a similar thing with some lights, so the user can set a time for the lights to run.

Any thoughts?

 

Touchscreen with Logic

Hi,

It'll take a little bit of work, but you can achieve this sort of functionality on a touchscreen with Logic, so either the colour touchscreen or B&W Mk2.

I would do something like:
- Create a SystemIO value for the run time, display it on a page and provide buttons to edit it.
- Have buttons to turn the Groups on and also enable a logic module.
- In the logic module, seed a Logic Timer with the SystemIO value on the first execution.
- On expiration of the logic timer turn the group address off.
- Also display the Logic Timer value on the screen to show run time remaining

The interlocking could be done by:
- Using scenes - so when button is pushed it turns the other groups off and the required one on.
- Logic, if timing is critical. Change the button function to just enable the logic module. First execution can turn off the other groups, then a later execution can turn on the required group, enforcing a changeover time.

Cheers,
Mark

 

As i was fearing, I'll have to buff up my coding skills
I'll also need some math to convert logic timer to hh:mm etc ?
I better go do some homework!

Thanks Mark.

 

Tada!!

Thanks Mark, definately put me on track.

I have the guts of it sorted and working.

once (GetLightingState("start1") = ON) then
begin
duration1 := (GetIntSystemIO("hr1")*3600) + (GetIntSystemIO("mm1")*60) + (GetIntSystemIO("ss1")*1) ;

PulseCBusLevel("ex1", "Lighting", "Kitchen", 50%, "4s", duration1, 0);


end;

The pulse command works a treat and countdown display is provided by simple cbus timer clock tool.

I had to use 3 seperate io's for hr,mm,ss to allow for more rapid setting by the user.

Just need to add a couple of lines to clear the io's when finished etc.

 

User System Io

Hi,

Great to hear you have it working!

For next time, it may be easier to use a Time type User System IO value, which you can display directly on a clock component and use to seed the logic timer directly (its just an integer underneath). You can then create button to nudge up/down by 3600/60/1 seconds for setting the hours/minutes/seconds.

Cheers,
Mark

 

Yes mate, i had a play with the logic timers, but couldn't work out how to display a countdown timer . . . till just now

timeset - timertime DUH!

Its all good now, thanks for the help.