House Off (I know I know)

Hi Guys,

I know this has been discussed and I have searched the forums but I do want to confirm a couple of things.

Right now I do a house off via a wiser macro (used to do in PAC). I have a HOUSEOFF group which I switch to 'ON' from a DLT which then triggers a macro in the wiser logic.

This logic once completed switches the HOUSEOFF group to 'OFF'

Now my question, in the macro, what is the best way to switch off my 150 groups. At the moment the 'virtual' ones (non dimmer logic groups) are switched off individually while I do a 'house' = off, 'garden' = off for the area codes for real dimmers that have areas of 'house' or 'garden'.

Should all groups be turned off individually? If so, is there a way of looping over groups 1 to 150 numerically rather than typing in the full group name as I do now (some of my groups have long names !)? Finally should they all be ramped down rather than simply switched off ?

Thanks
Chris

 

It is much, much better to just use a Scene. There is no need to use logic to switch off a series of groups.

We no longer recommend the use of area addresses. You get a simpler solution using Scenes, and you avoid the few quirks of area addresses.

 

Thanks for the reply.

When you say a scene - 150 groups in a scene - is that possible - I thought it had space for 6 or so ?

Finally if I do go for the massive loop - is there a way in code not to have to use the long group name ? Is there a group code instead (0 to 255)?

sort of

for i = 1 to 255
setGroup(i,OFF)
next i

rather than

setGroup("A1 - Landing Lights half way up",OFF)
setGroup("A2 - Main stair lights",OFF)
.... etc

Ta
Chris

 

Wiser will handle 250 Scenes. The maximum capacity of a single Scene is 100 groups. You can either trigger 2 scenes, or have one Scene trigger the next.

Code:

for i := 1 to 255 do
  SetLightingState(i, OFF);

 

Just tried that - worked a treat - takes about 3 seconds as suggested.

Chris

 

No more playing with 230v for you Ashleigh!

Sounds like you've had too many shocks.

 

It's ok Ashleigh, here, just put on this nice warm padded jacket with the straps around it and you'll feel much better...

 

just discovered a side effect of setting 250 groups. It causes my comfort alarm cbus UCM module to malfunction and cause an alarm error (not every time but always immediately after a house off). Must be overloading it.

Chris

 

Delays insode for loops don't work properly (must fix that some time )

Best to do something like:

Code:

for i := 0 to 127 do
  SetLightingState(i, OFF);

delay(5);

for i := 128 to 255 do
  SetLightingState(i, OFF);

You could break it into small sections if needed.

Or you could create a few scenes and do it that way:

Code:

SetScene("All Off 1");

delay(5);

SetScene("All Off 2");