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Enhancement: "Communication failure" device status

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:06 pm
by DJF3
Hi,

Here's an enhancement request. Looking at Oregon temperature devices all have device-status "unknown-17".
I want to use the device status in HST to change the color + text for devices that have a communication failure.

Could the plugin set the device-status of "Communication Failure" devices to "OFF" or "DIM" (for example) ?


Thank you!
DJ

Re: Enhancement: "Communication failure" device status

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:27 pm
by b_weijenberg
Is it a solution to check the display field for the text "Communication failure"?

Re: Enhancement: "Communication failure" device status

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:30 pm
by Rene
I second that. I would like the status to be 2 (on) as long as the heartbeat is received within the required time frame. As soon as the heartbeat is not received and the status string is changed to "Communication failure" I would like the status to change to 17 (unknown). This would help me in the plugin I am developing to drawup charts, because when the status is 2 I known the device value needs to be recorded periodically while when the status is unknown the device value does not have to be recorded.

Re: Enhancement: "Communication failure" device status

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:49 pm
by DJF3
Man! You guys are FAST ;-)

I want to use the status in HS Touch. If a device has a communication failure I want the text to be less 'intrusive'.
Normal status: text-color: white
Comm failure: text-color: gray
In HST this can only be done based on the device-status or device-value.
The device-value cannot be used as it should keep the 'last known good' value.

Re: Enhancement: "Communication failure" device status

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 8:31 pm
by b_weijenberg
Send a request to support for a Beta version of the RFXCOM plug-in with status=3 if communication failure, else status=2

Re: Enhancement: "Communication failure" device status

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:29 am
by DJF3
Done, bedankt!
DJ

Re: Enhancement: "Communication failure" device status

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 5:30 pm
by DJF3
It's working great!

DJ