Why would one of my devices not show in 5500SHAC Objects

Slowly converting my logic all over to the SHAC... and I just noticed one of my devices is not listed in the objects when viewing in the SHAC Objects List...

If I use the toolkit - and scan - I can see that I have a Temperature Sensor (5031TS) at address 150. I can see through the toolkit an obvious difference to other items - this temperature sensor has no Serial number... Firmware is ver 1.00.

SO its scannable, and I can see it through tool kit - I can even read and display the temperature through my logic on a black . white mk II screen - been working well for years...

However its not discoverable in SHAC - I tried to add the unit manually for address 150 - but it did not like that...

So why is it not displaying in the object list - and more importantly how can I resolve it - so I can continue to read and display the temperature from this sensor ?

 

Hi Impact, not sure I can help with the problem, but would be interested in the logic you use to display the temp on a B&W screen if you were able to share.

Glen

 

I love sharing and helping others... So here goes...

It was about 5 or 6 years ago I did it - so I am just referring to my Piced code now - and look it was self experimentation, so maybe it was not done the right way - but it works.... I think... well it had for the last few years. I might use the wrong terminology here - but the pics will help you understand what I did....

ON my main screen - I have a component (2 actually - but lets just look at one of them) - It has the text Lounge associated with it - and it displays the monitoring of the variable TempLiving - The picture is not live - so the variable is shown as a blank...

Clicking on the Add/Edit of that monitor - you will see that TempLiving is on Unit 150 with a refresh rate of 60 seconds.

Try that... I also have code that plays around with System.IO Variables - but that may be left over from my experimentation, as the code appears to be commented out - so I am guessing it is not needed. I may have just found a simpler way of doing it... If it does not work for you - I will look harder at the script and determine where / when its needed and let you know...


But back to my questions - hoping for some helpful hints returned - LOL !

 

That makes sense...

I thought I did that - and it still didn't like it - but maybe I did not do polling ???? Will give it another try!!! Was just concerned that it was so old, no serial number, that maybe it was not compatible...

Hopefully have time to try again today - and certainly will report back if I am still having problems!

 

Thanks Nick - Im self taught - and still learning... so don't worry about the risk of telling me something I don't know...

Maybe I m getting Network / Groups mixed up and using the wrong function...

On my toolkit - I see the sensor on 0/56/150 which of course means Lighting to me... I was trying to use the LUA function of... temp, units = GetCBusMeasurement(0, 150, 1) as that function looked like something that would get a temperature... Doh kind of made sense - I am after the temperature from this sensor...

So I manually added the temperature sensor to the SHAC objects at 0/56/150 - as that's what I have used through toolkit.

However, despite the online example and documentation for GetCBusMeasurement showing;
-- Get temperature and units of channel 1 of sensor 1 on the local network
-- temp is a float and units is a string (eg '°C')
temp, units = GetCBusMeasurement('Local', 'sensor1', 1)

The error log is showing that it is automatically putting in the 228 for Measurement and hence I get the error;
Library cbuslogic:0: unable to find 0/228/56/150

Make sense as the sensor is not on 228 - its on 56

So I tried to define the sensor on 228 Measurement - then I get the error;
Library cbuslogic:0: unable to decode for 0/228/150/1


SO my theory is a temp sensor still beliongs on lighting... not to move it to measurement.... and dont use GetCBusMeasurement to read it....

If you see this before I get to play again - please confirm I am right !!! and what fucntion I should be using to read the values from the sensor!!!

LOL - Trying to do 7 things at once today.... Some more fun than others! Must stop playing!

 

Thanks Impact will try it out over the weekend

 

Thankyou Nick - been putting it off... frustration / procrastination... but thought Id give it a try...

It was so easy - I just created the object as 0/255/150/1 gave it a polling time of 60 seconds... and waited....

On the object list it appeared just below the standard other user parameters of Voltage and Utilisation... and after a little while - it populated the value column with 28.07 C - Voilla… half way there...

Went to the script and used value = GetUnitParameter(0, 150, 1) which returned the value of 28.07421875 - All good again....

And in case anyone wants help - this is how I populated the user variable, and truncated it to just 1 decimal place.....

value = GetUnitParameter(0, 150, 1)
SetUserParam(0, 5, 'Living Area Temperature: '..tonumber(string.format("%." ..(1).. "f", value))..'°C')


I recall I used to do it this way on the BW screen until I found the other method... and had similar code commented out...

Happy camper again - I can move on to porting the next function across from the BW Screen... But I wish I could get some guidance / best practice on my other big query on best way to scrape data and represent it... https://www.cbusforums.com/threads/lua-help-maybe-or-something-else.9474/

Got any advice on that one!

 

Thanks for the advice Impact, all worked fine.