C-Gate commands for remote network

I am trying to learn bit more about C-Gate and have it running at the moment with commands to the local network working fine.

I have a network bridge in the network and I want to send commands to the remote network. Send to adjacent network is turned off because I ran out of group addresses and started getting duplicates on both networks which did not go down to well.

Can I send an On/Off/Ramp command to a group on the remote network and if so what is the syntax for the command.

Thanks

 

Do you have a problem when you just change the network number to that of the other network?

eg. ON 254/56/43 turns on lighting group 43 on network 254 (normally Local)
and ON 253/56/43 turns lighting group 43 on for network 253 etc.

 

yes, trying to turn on a group on the remote network fails with an error.

on network 254 "on /254/56/78" works fine

om the remote network "on /253/56/211" fails with

408 Operation failed //<Project name>/253/56/211

Mick

 

The syntax if fine, so there must be an issue with that network.

Try:

NET LIST will give you a list of all the networks in the project and their state. See if network 253 is running

TREE 253 will list all the applications and groups on that network and give their state also.

GET 253/56/211 * will give you the current status of that group

Try those and see what you get.

 

net list

131-network=254 State=ok InterfaceState=running
131-network=253 State=new InterfaceState=running

TREE 253 returns information with no errors

GET /253/56/211 * returns the specific information for the group.

So it all appears to working fine just cant turn control the groups.

Is it because the State=new and not OK, or because the bridge is not set for send to adjacent networks which means I cant control the remote network at all.

 

Just a thought.

Wasn't there some issue with a license being required to access multiple networks?

I think it was to stop free direct competition with Homegate etc.

I vaguely remember it was originally a single network only, but when the wireless stuff came out it was increased to two, or something like that.

Can't really remember, so I might have it wrong.

Cheers

Rohan

 

C-Gate licenses were removed back in 2007. See here:

http://www.cbusforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11571

I have 3 networks (2 wired, 1 wireless). The second wired network is independent (i.e. no Send To Adjacent Network) and it works fine from C-Gate.

I assume you can scan the second network from Toolkit? Have you tried accessing any of the groups on the second network directly from say a Touchscreen?

 

Thanks guys

I don't have a touchscreen to try with.

As a sanity check I tried the same commands from my laptop running toolkit and c-gate (have been testing C-Gate on a Pi). Same results.

Toolkit turns on groups on the remote network and the event (telnet on port 20025) shows the command as being sent when toolkit is used and the syntax is as expected. Using telnet to the local C-Gate gives me the same errors.

 

I tried to reproduce that error by introducing all sorts of problems on the network, but I just get network errors and never the error you get. I think you need the guy who wrote C-Gate to tell you where that error originates from.

Have you tried looking through the log files?

You could also try getting more detailed events from the command by setting a higher event level. i.e. events e9s0c0

 

Hello Mick.

Maybe try "net open 253" to open the network first or send
"on 253/56/211 force" to send/force the instruction through.

 

adding force to the end work.

Two different instsances of C-Gate giving the same result - it must be something simple.

At least force is allowing me to move forward. I'll check the log a little later

Thanks all

 

I actually managed to get it to fail by restarting cgate and issuing commands immediately. Issuing a NET SYNC 252 solved the problem, so it's something to try.

 

Thanks Ashley

From what I saw, C-Gate starts an autosync not long after startup and does it periodically. But I'll give it a go.

I was watching it syn the networks and thought that it may be the cause so I let it go and came back a while later. Still no joy.

Can someone tell me what the State=New means when I do a net list?

Nothings making sense really, especially when toolkit has no issues. I still need to find out to up the logging and then find the log file - thats next on the list.

 

thanks daniel -- quick question: when does C-Gate kick off a sync? does it do it automatically upon opening the connection? how frequently?

thanks,
simon

 

From what I read a snyc should happen not long after initial connection but I dont know how often it happens after that.

Thanks daniel for answering the issue of what State=new means. I'll try initiating a sync and see if that improves anything.

 

thanks daniel -- much appreciated.
-s

 

I have been digging a little more into this and so far all I can work out is that the network is always at a status of new because it is not sync'd

I tried a manual sync and it runs through the list and then retrieves the data from the remote units and then gets to the bridge, appears to sync ok and then it reports a failure and is unable to sync.

From what I can tell there is nothing wrong on the remote network - it is all working fine. It could be the bridge I suppose - its about 15 years old now.

Are there any other reasons why a network won't sync in C-Gate?