Time Clock sync

I have a Colour C-Touch that gets reset (power cycled) once in awhile. I must admit this is not normal operation. However...

When it does, it sense out a 1st Jan 2004 date out to the entire network, and stuffs up my schedules. This tells me the battery on board the CTC is flat. Is there anyway I can set a Time Clock Master, or even disable the CTC from sending out the time info?

 

The best solution is to replace the battery.

If you are using PICED V3.3 or later, you can open the Project Details form, go to the C-Bus Options tab and de-select "Enable Time Synchronisation".

 

enable time sync

If i deselect this in the Project Details page, does this only stop it from sending Time info, or receiving the time from another unit as well?

 

I am sorry, but the information in my previous post was wrong. The "Enable Time Synchronisation" option only applies to PICED itself (in simulation mode) but does not apply to Colour C-Touch. The help file does say this

So, unfortunately, you are back to square one. You will need to get the battery replaced. I am actually quite surprised that the battery could have gone flat by now. I wonder if there could be another cause.

 

I have had a similar problem , but in my case it was a Black and white touch screen. The funny thing was because the B/W touch screen lost its time , it also modified the time of the colour touch screen on the same network.
Dont think its the battery because the B/W touch screen has only been manufactured in Dec 2005 and has been in use for less than a year. I have had B/W touch screens running for much much longer without any hassles, unless the quality has declined over the years

 

I once had an issue with the time on the network. I was trying to change the time in order to test the system.

After calling tech. support I was informed that the DLTs held the time and over rides the touchscreen. The touch screen would update its time to what the DLT was set at.

Hope it helps.

 

Ashleigh
Is this not what I flagged in 2005
dave

http://www.cbusforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=889&highlight=dlt+clock

 

DLT Clock

Hi,

The DLT will broadcast the time to the network once, if and only if you set the time on the unit using a 10 second press on the 5th button.
It will not be a time master unit (ie. re-broadcast the time every 24 hours) as it is not as accurate as a C-Touch.

Wrt DLT's broadcasting the time other than after entering time set mode on the unit, please post a log file if you can reproduce it.

Cheers,
Mark.

 

Hmm interesting Ashleigh.

I had a DLT, PAC and monochrome TS on the network. Trying to change the time through the PAC unit did not work... although this was some time ago I don't want to say too much about what was happening...

If I change the time on either the PAC or monochrome touch screen, should both of these update the network time?

 

If you change time on the C-Touch by using the time setting page, it will broadcast the time onto C-Bus.

If you change the time on a PAC or C-Touch from a PC, it does not broadcast the time onto C-Bus. This will be fixed in the next release of the firmware.

 

Excellent. Thanks Darren, exactly what I was after.