Piced cbus interface

I have just loaded my home ctouch with firmware ver 200 and noticed the following when connected to cbus;
1 major improvement in that while connected I can still use the touch set set scenes and loads etc.
2 from the piced should i be able to toggle a load - nothing happens although the status changes.
3 the load monitor doent seem to update all the time even with the autoupdate box ticked. seems to work if when opening the screen i tick update box then open the lighting application.
4 got some new errors from cgate - like
20050428-085300 799 sys config parameter clock.update-interval not found
20050428-085259 799 sys config parameter clock.update-interval not found
20050428-085504 775 null - Checking license
20050428-085607 844 //morrison/254 4479007f-483a-4d23-9276-6022b43d95c1 Unit sync failed
20050428-085607 844 //morrison/254 4479007f-483a-4d23-9276-6022b43d95c1 Unit sync failed
20050428-085717 843 //morrison/254/56 1a6c6e59-e633-4ea3-814b-43e30e4d6d6c Group sync failed
20050428-085748 843 //morrison/254/56 1a6c6e59-e633-4ea3-814b-43e30e4d6d6c Group sync failed
20050428-085758 824 //morrison/254 4479007f-483a-4d23-9276-6022b43d95c1 unknown response: ~~~ ***
20050428-085848 827 sys C-Bus Send Error: Send failed (no confirm)
20050428-085848 827 sys C-Bus Send Error: Send failed (no confirm)

so it seems the hardware working ok just trouble with piced getting levels which means i can not update sceen level in piced - can in ctouch hardware

dave

 

If you are connected to C-Bus it should change the C-Bus loads. C-Bus gets disconected when you connect to C-Touch.

I will have a look at this.

These errors are not related to PICED as such. These are normal C-Gate messages. The fact that you are getting a few failures is of concern, and may point to marginal C-Bus communications.

 

Darren

Darren
Think i got the problem now.
When i connected to cbus piced and cgate said they were connected to cbus but they were not - the touch screen was still in normal mode.
This would account for,
why i could still change scenes etc on the touch
cgate errors
why levels never showed up in the load monitor.

so the problem now is why.

dave

 

Cbus disconnection

Have noticed that with piced that when you disconnect from the cbus the ctouch stays in the pc interface mode until the cable is remove.

This was fixed in the last ctouch version 2.4.x but is back in piced




dave

 

This has never been "fixed" because it isn't a bug as such. This is just how the C-Touch works. Once you have put it in PCI mode, it stays that way until the cable is removed, or the power is cycled.