Couple of small bugs...

Discussion in 'C-Touch/HomeGate/SchedulePlus/PICED Software' started by RossW, Nov 7, 2010.

  1. RossW

    RossW

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    Just been setting up the tracking of my solar panels to run under cbus and have encountered a couple of bugs.

    1. I'd set a time schedule. I wanted an event to happen starting at a nominal time, say 8pm, and to continue happening periodically until 6am. Easy I thought - the clipsal guys will have been clever enough to see START time of 20:00:00 and END time of 06:00:00 and see it as I meant it. FAIL. Complains about "Start time must be before end time". I suppose thats a reasonable sanity check, but there are times where it's the intended function. Perhaps a "Start time is before end time, will start one day and end the next, is this ok?"

    2. Having encountered the above, and decided to do it another way, I changed the "Time" from Repeat to "Sunset", set the offset to +30m and hit ok. It still complained about the "Start time must be before end time" that had been set in the "Repeat" mode. So I went to repeat mode, fixed the times it had remembered to something "acceptable" - then returned to Sunset mode - only to find it had forgotten the offset! This is inconsistent behaviour - if you're going to remember the times in repeat mode, why forget them in sunset/sunrise mode (I checked both those, and they reset to 0:0:0 offset each time).

    These were in the Schedule Manager of Piced 4.9.0.0
     
    RossW, Nov 7, 2010
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    This is possible, but would be quite complex to do for all but the simplest case of a schedule which occurs every day. At the moment, you could just have one schedule periodically from 8PM to midnight, then another from midnight to 6AM.

    I will have a look at that.
     
    Darren, Nov 8, 2010
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