PAC Logic Timer

Hello fellow C-Bus Logic coders and or Darren (if I am lucky)...

I have display requirement where an event starts a PAC Logic Timer.

I would like to pulse a C-Bus GA (same GA each time) every 4th second of the timer for a period of about 5 minutes.

What is the most efficient way to code this ???

 

Dont know if its the most efficient but how about

if (timerTime(timer) % 4) == 0 then pulse GA

mod divide the current timerTime by 4, if the remainder is 0 then it divides by 4 correctly so pulse the GA.

obviously my syntax is wrong and I dont know if mod divide is supported but it was the first thing that sprung to my mind.

//timerTime>1 because if the timer is 0 then mod 4 will probably also equal 0 and cause a cbus command on every loop
//another option would be to put this in a module and enable/disable that when the timer is running/not running
if ((timerTime(timer) mod 4) = 0) AND (timerTime(timer)>1) then
begin
PulseCBusLevel("network", "application", "group", 100%, "0s", "0:00:02", 0%);
end;

 

Thanks filpee, I will give that a crack and let you know - that is if we don't hear from Daren before hand as to whether it is supported.

 

filpee has it essentially correct. Obviously he has done programming in C before.

Try this:

Code:

once TimerRunning(1) and (TimerTime(1) mod 4 = 0) then
begin
  PulseCBusLevel("Local", "Lighting", "Group 1", 100%, "0s", "0:00:01", 0%);
  if TimerTime(1) > "0:05:00" then
    TimerStop(1);
end;

 

filpee - thanks again that worked fine...

if ((TimerTime(TimerAlarm) mod 4) = 0) AND (TimerRunning(TimerAlarm)) then
begin
PulseCBusLevel("LOCAL", "Lighting", "Test1", 100%, "0s", "0:00:02", 0%);
end;

 

Whilst writing the post above Darren slipped a post in.

Thank guys...

 

You will need to make sure that you use "once", not "if", otherwise you will get 5 C-Bus pulses sent in a row (the logic engine runs 5 times per second).

 

Thanks Darren - I am always very careful using if in C-Bus Logic especially if the action is a C-Bus message.

When I wrote the real code for the project where I also dealt with the timer as per your suggestion I definitely used "once" a you pointed out.

Thanks again, I knew there would be a very simple math based solution for this.