Display C-Bus voltage using piced

Hi All,
I have been looking through PICED trying to find a method to have on my display the c-bus voltage on a touch screen but can't find any way so far . Anyone out there know if this is even possible.
Can it be accessed from a relay or dimmer and display that ?

Its just one of those little things id like to add to my test project.

regards
Trevor

 

You need to create a monitor for this.

Under PROJECT/MONITORS, add a new monitor, give it a name, select the unit and select Voltage as the data.

Then to add to a page select COMPONENT/PLACE MONITOR and select your new monmitor

 

Thanks Ash,
I did have that but it comes up with ?V
I understand how a device would provide a voltage level via a cbus group address, but the touch screen doesn't have that as a command to output it cbus. I know that the diagnostic utility can get and display this via the get unit voltages option, and thought there must be a way to do this via PICED, Toolkit or C-Bus commands, I've looked through all of them to no avail.

 

No it doesn't. Voltages are unit parameters and can only be accessed by polling. That's what a monitor does.

What I said above definitely works (I just tried it), so you have something set up wrong.

If you have set up the monitor correctly (under PROJECT/MONITORS) that page will show you the current voltage of the selected unit. Make sure that works first. Then add the monitor display widget.

Also, of course, make sure PICED is connected to Cbus under OPTIONS/CONNECT TO CBUS

 

Hi Ashley,
My mistake, but i have set it up correctly, it does work from the PC (connected to cbus now), but not when loaded into a project and run from the touch screen. exact same project.

 

How long did you wait? They can take a few minutes to get going.

 

... i have a ctc3 connected in my test system, its always on, and connected to cbus and nw.
The readout us on the main timeout page, so always visible, I can try it on a ctc1 and 2 tomorrow, i have one of each in for repair.
Would be nice to add it to my test project. Also i have never been able to get the weather option running on the screens, but it works from my pc test project ok. Related???
Regards
Trevor

 

Yes, but every time you transfer a new project to it, it has to restart and sync with the network which takes time. Try running the diagnostic utility and see if the touch screen is issuing the get unit parameter commands on the specified time interval.

Probably not.

 

Hi Ash,
Thanks again for replying, the project has been loaded and running overnight, so plenty of time, the toolkit diagnostic see's the screen voltage ok. I don't have the time to do anything more with this until Wednesday next week, I'll update my tools menu to include some more options and recheck it next week.
Thanks for your assistance so far...

regards
Trevor