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yep - I do that now. CQC shuts off all lights, A/C, TV and closes the garage doors if they are open.
CQC issues a command to the area group to turn off the whole house - that does not update all the groups in CQC - same net effect in the end.
If I wanted to write an action with 40-50 odd groups in it then that is a different story - and just as ugly and harder to maintain.
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Rohan, yes that's what i'm gonna do... just worried that my 26 channel off command mike take a while to run...
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I have worked out that you need a 500ms pause at about every fourth command otherwise the PCI buffer gets full. Sometimes it is three commands that can cause a problem as well. Hence I use the area group for the all off.
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I should add support for grouping of send commands and not just receive.
Then it will send 10 commands in 1 (this is what my Minder does)
Although I kind of like the effect of all my lights ramping to 0 a few at a time over a few seconds when I press the All Off button.
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is that in the public release? I didnt think it was, but as I have said in the past, I had this info on grouped commands from some reverse engineering/V1 software so it is fair game in my book
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znelbok Wrote:is that in the public release? I didnt think it was, but as I have said in the past, I had this info on grouped commands from some reverse engineering/V1 software so it is fair game in my book
Mick
No it would have to be another feature held back until we get the secure environment.
If it was just for me and not made available to anybody else, then I wouldn't be so concerned, but the guys at CIS have been good to me (us) and so I don't want to do the wrong thing by them.
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