PICED sets wrong Date on Comfort

Discussion in 'C-Touch/HomeGate/SchedulePlus/PICED Software' started by Ingo, Sep 30, 2009.

  1. Ingo

    Ingo

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    Hi,

    I noticed a few times that my Comfort system sometimes changes to the wrong date. Tonight I actually simulated this after a project download via PICED.

    When doing a project download, one of the options are to set the Date & Time. Usually you set this to make sure that your PAC is running the right time and date.

    After a transfer my Comfort panel changed from year 09 to year 29. The output below is from Comfigurator's Monitor window showing, firstly, setting the time & date back to normal using Comfigurator and then doing a Date & Time setting using PICED connected via USB to the PAC.

    Setting Date & Time via Comfigurator.

    > DT20090930184247
    < DT20090930184247


    Doing a Set Date & Time from PICED 4.7.1.
    < DT51290930194326
    < DT51290930194300
    < DT51290930194300

    Am I the only one time travelling to the year 5129??? Seems a lot like 2009 to me :) I don't know if this is an incorrect command sent to Comfort via PICED or is the command interpreted wrong by the UCM/CBus connecting the two units together. I presume it's the UCM/CBus because below is the log entry for PICED (running on a second PC for capture purposes)

    2009/09/30 19:43:31 Date/Time: Received C-Bus message to set date to 2009/09/30
    2009/09/30 19:43:31 Date/Time: Received C-Bus message to set time to 19:43:31
    2009/09/30 19:43:31 Date/Time: Received C-Bus message to set time to 19:43:31
    2009/09/30 19:43:32 Date/Time: Received C-Bus message to set time to 19:43:32
    2009/09/30 19:43:32 Date/Time: Received C-Bus message to set time to 19:43:32

    Can anyone confirm my findings?

    Thanks,
    Ingo
     
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    Can't confirm as I don't have a Comfort system.. however I suspect what is happening is that the PAC broadcasts the time on C-Bus when it is set during the upload, and that the Comfort is not handling this message properly.

    Nick
     
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    Nick,

    I am going to test an older Comfort UCM/CBus firmware tonight and post the results.

    Ingo
     
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    I found the problem, it's the UCM/Cbus that seems to wrongly interpret a Date setting. This is only in a Beta firmware and all released UCM/CBus firmware should be fine. Results below:

    Setting Date & Time using Comfigurator and monitoring with Diag Tool.
    2009/10/02 07:19:29 Rx : Local Network, Source Unit 18, Time, Date Friday 2/10/2009

    Setting with PICED via PAC.
    2009/10/02 07:24:25 Rx : Local Network, Source Unit 19, Time, Date Friday 2/10/2009, Time 07:24:14
     
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