Serial Protocol - Light/Group Levels

Hi Guys,

I have coded up a driver for Elve automation system to work on the CBUS, with most focus on App56 for lighting. The driver is working pretty stable and all the main functions needed are responding very nicely.

The bus is cool and transmitts lots of good data to parse and process, and I am having no issues in reading Group/light level data when it appears on the bus.

However - One of the things I can not find anywhere is how do i query the current level of a light (group). I would like to set the driver at startup to query the current network for the level of any group\light which is present on the bus, so that i have this data from the start, and not just after some time running and listening to the bus

Do you know of a function or command that you can issue on the bus to request a level report? pointer at the relevant doc even would help, I have read a pile of them but this function has excaped me so far.

Thank you in advance
Damian

 

You need to look at the Status Request message in the Serial Users Guide


all is explained there.
Regards
Mark

 

thank you sir,

this evenings reading awaits.
-d

 

I am some genius,
I had wrote a function to query the level and only when i started reading the doucment again did i cop on that i never actually called the function...

thanks again
-d

 

Well requesting the status was def the easy part, parsing the results was clearly more of a challange.

If your interested the test code for the Elve driver is currently in my dropbox location - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7477589/DigiNerve Elve Drivers.dll

thanks
Damian