HomeGate, Security App and Logic

First question, do I have to use logic at all for this - I might be missing something very simple!

What I am trying to do is get HomeGate to jump to a specific page when a particular event happens within the Security application. So far as I can see, that needs logic. Assuming it does.....

This works:

Code:

once (GetLightingState("Nick Study Fan") = ON) then
begin
  ShowPage("Driveway");
end;

This does nothing:

Code:

once (GetCBusState("Local Network", "Security", "Front Study PIR") = ON) then
begin
  ShowPage("Driveway");
end;

If I monitor C-Bus (using ToolKit), I can see messages like:

Code:

208 / 23 / Security Zone Unsealed
208 / 23 / Security Zone Sealed
056 / 200 / Group On
056 / 200 / Group Off

So, it looks as if either I have got the logic syntax wrong or HomeGate is not "seeing" the events on app 208. I'm a bit concerned about the usual confusion about zones/groups - and am a bit surpised to be seeing names for the "groups" in app 208. They can only be coming from where I (stupidly) named all the zones in ToolKit the other day.

Clues?

 

Hi NickLocke,

In order to get the touch screen to change pages when a group address changes you do need to use logic.

The first snippet of code is the correct way of doing this with a lighting application group. The security application snippet won't work because the security application works in a completely different manner to the lighting application.

The specific reason the second snippet doesn't work is because the security group does not actually go 'on' when the zone changes from sealed to unsealed. The way to get the function you want is by using the inbuilt system IO functions.

Code:

{? 0 = sealed
 ? 1 = unsealed
 ? 2 = open circuit
 ? 3 = short circuit }
once GetIntIBSystemIO("Security Zone Status", 1) = 0 then
begin
  ShowPage("Driveway");
end;

In this example the number 1 represents the zone number

Regards,

Matty

 

Thanks Matty.

That certainly helped with my understanding. I did have to change "= 0" to "= 1" to detect the "unsealing" rather than the later "resealing".

I am a Comfort user and it is interesting to note that Comfort reports security events on Application 1 in addition to Application 208. That seems to be configured as a "lighting like" application so I can actually also watch that rather than Application 208. Not sure (yet) of the relative merits there!

Thanks again.