How to Flash lights when Alarm is triggered

A client requested that all external lights of his residence should Flash for 2 minutes when the Alarm Panel triggers Alarm.
When I was on site I tried to find out a way to do it, however without success. With a little search at home I found something and since I am impatient to wait to test it on site I would like to hear you opinion.
1. I created a scene called Alarm
2. Setup a Trigger Control Group that is triggered via a bus coupler from the Alarm Panel
3. I set Pulse to all groups for 2 minutes
4. Finally, the tricky part, by right clicking in every group I selected the Flash option http://prntscr.com/btipu

Will this work?

 

I've done something vaguely similar but I use my PAC to pulse a CbusLevel. If the PulseCbusLevel command can do the same with your Trigger then it will probably work.

My 'Lived-In-Look' however is slightly different though, I have a Scene for the ON state and a Scene for the OFF state. When triggered I enable a Module and inside the Module I have the ON Scene, a Delay and then the OFF Scene. The only drawback I experience is when I 'interrupt' the execution of the module by arriving home then the lights go off all by themselves at some point - I haven't fixed that part up yet.

Ingo

 

Thanks Ingo,
However I do not have a logic module in this project.
Flash option I described above can not be saved so I am lost again (I tested in wiser)
Any help is much appreciated. I know it can be done without logic because I have seen it in a installation years ago

 

This is not the best solution but it's the only solution I found.

I used a time schedule that is repeated every 10sec (the sooner configuration time) if the Alarm is turned ON. However the group is pulsed ON only for 5 sec.
As a result, lights coming ON for 5 sec and OFF for the next 5 sec, and the sequence is repeated for as long as I like.

The repetition every 5 seconds can not called "Flashing lights", so I am still waiting for your proposals...

 

This is not an "option" of the group as such. It is so that you can flash a group while you are creating the scene to physically see which group it is.

 

What are you wanting it to do? This sounds like "flashing" to me...

 

Hi Darren.
If the intruder Alarm panel signals for alarm, the client wants all external lights to flash in order to be easier identified by the neighborhood which house is under attack.

 

The repeat schedule pulsing the group which you have set up should toggle the "LT LR 2" group every 5 seconds while the "enable alarm" group is on. It is not clear whether that is not working or is not an acceptable solution.

 

I am sorry for my bad English.
I wanted to find a way to toggle lights in a quite fast rate. A solution I found out is the above described though a repeat schedule, however the 5 seconds repeat rate is not what I had in mind - it is too slow.
I just wondering if there is a way to succeed a faster rate (like every 1 sec) without logic

 

There is probably other ways but I used this to get some flashing going.

Code:

{office lights to flash 3 times when camera motion is on}
once (GetLightingState("Camera Motion") = ON) then   
begin
 TimerStart(1);
end;

once
TimerTime(1) = 0 then
begin
SetLightingLevel("OFFICE LIGHTS" AND "OFFICE CENTRE", 100%, "0s"); {To test it I used my Office Lights group address}
end;

once
TimerTime(1) = 1 then
begin
SetLightingLevel("OFFICE LIGHTS", 0%, "0s");                       
end;

once
TimerTime(1) = 2 then
begin
SetLightingLevel(FLASHADDRESS, 100%, "0s");                                                                     
end;
once
TimerTime(1) = 3 then
begin
SetLightingLevel(FLASHADDRESS, 0%, "0s");
end;
once
TimerTime(1) = 4 then
begin
SetLightingLevel(FLASHADDRESS, 100%, "0s");
end;

once
TimerTime(1) = 5 then
begin
SetLightingLevel(FLASHADDRESS, 0%, "0s");
end;
once
TimerTime(1) = 6 then
begin
SetLightingLevel(FLASHADDRESS, 100%, "0s");
end;

once
TimerTime(1) = 7 then
begin
SetLightingLevel(FLASHADDRESS, 0%, "0s");
end;

once
TimerTime(1) = 8 then
begin
SetLightingLevel(FLASHADDRESS, 100%, "0s");
end;
once
TimerTime(1) = 9 then
begin
SetLightingLevel(FLASHADDRESS, 0%, "0s");
end;
once
TimerTime(1) = 10 then
begin
SetLightingLevel(FLASHADDRESS, 100%, "0s");
end;

once
TimerTime(1) = 11 then
begin
SetLightingLevel(FLASHADDRESS, 0%, "0s");
end;
once
TimerTime(1) = 12 then
begin
SetLightingLevel("Camera Motion", 0%, "0s");   
end;

once
TimerTime(1) = 12 then     {stops timer 1}
begin
TimerStop(1);
end;

 

No problem. I wish I could communicate as well as you do in a second language!

The limit of a 10 second repeat rate was put on schedules to stop people from flooding C-Bus with messages.

You can have more than one repeat schedule with the 10 second repeat rate but with a different starting time to give a slight offset. Ideally you would have them like this:
- Schedule 1 pulses on for 1 second every 10 seconds, starting at 0:00:00
- Schedule 2 pulses on for 1 second every 10 seconds, starting at 0:00:02
- Schedule 3 pulses on for 1 second every 10 seconds, starting at 0:00:04
- Schedule 4 pulses on for 1 second every 10 seconds, starting at 0:00:06
- Schedule 5 pulses on for 1 second every 10 seconds, starting at 0:00:08

Unfortunately, in Colour C-Touch there seems to be a problem where a 1 second pulse actually lasts for 2 seconds (issue 23848), so in this case, you would do it like this:

- Schedule 1 pulses on for 1 second every 10 seconds, starting at 0:00:00
- Schedule 2 pulses on for 1 second every 10 seconds, starting at 0:00:03
- Schedule 3 pulses on for 1 second every 10 seconds, starting at 0:00:06

This gives a sequence of off for 1 second, on for 2 seconds.

If you are using a Colour C-Touch and really want the 1 second rate, you could do it with 10 schedules to switch it on and off, each offset by 1 second.

 

No logic....

He has no logic module available....

 

There is a thread somewhere in here about light chasing nad how it can be done in C-bus without a PAC or other.

I dont remember the details, but if you search for it you may find a clue in that thread.

Mick