Forcing a Security Status Update?

I noticed that in PICED I can assign a special function to a button and then assign the 'Security Status Request' to the button.

When I toggle the button I see my Comfort system report all the zone statusses. This can be verified in the PICED log file.

When I do a SECURITY STATUS_REQUEST $app 1|2 from CGate I only get the zone status in an encoded form, it doesn't force Comfort to report each zone in the same way that PICED does.

Is there a CGate method to force Comfort to report every zone similar to PICED? I need CGate to 'learn' the current state of the zones in order to properly report on a GET level command.

Thanks,
Ingo

 

If you enable the logging of C-Gate messages in the PICED log, you will see exactly what PICED is sending to C-Gate. This should tell you what you need to know.

 

I must be missing something, see below where I manually enter the commands required and what output it generates. Secondly I click the PICED button and then all the zones start to report. What is the difference between the two?

 

PICED is sending status request 2 then 1 very close together in time. The security panel seems to be handling them in the opposite order and sending reply 1 then 2. This may be due to the request messages being concatenated on C-Bus.

Try sending the requests very rapidly (milliseconds apart) or try sending status request 1 then 2 with a delay in between.

 

Brilliant!!!! The sending of the commands with almost no delay inbetween does the trick.

Thanks