Re: Logging from HomeVision / ACE / Comfort

[Vince <groups@xxxxxxx>]

At 16:39 23/10/02, you wrote:
>I've got Comfort linked to HomeVision and also separately to a PC
>running ACE. I've also got a Smartfit unit running the central
>heating and the Smartfit Comfort UCM. Comfort reports changes in
>room and hot water temperature as they happen.
>
>Temp changes are reported on the Comfort serial bus (available to
>both HV and ACE) by a string such as "CT011A". In this
example the
>1A represents 26 Deg C (Hex number) hot water.
>
>I'd like to log all these (but nothing else) messages to a text or
>CSV file etc, along with time/date stamp. I would then import this
>into Excel and graph the changes so that I can design an effective
>heating control system through HV (i.e. know how long it takes to
>heat the tank, how long it takes to heat the house etc etc). I
think
>HV can do this logging but haven't got my head round it - has
anyone
>done something similar?
>
>Any pointers as to how to do it?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Paul.


You could do it like this:-

         Serial transmit:
"write to file say.txt "The temperature is "
         Serial transmit: Variable
#8 (Workshop Temp) value as ASCII bytes 
without leading zeros
         Serial transmit:
"""

This was pinched from ACE api32.txt file but it's pure Homevision
stuff.

Vince

PS. I did have a quick look to see if ACE could do this via a Comfort 
action but could not work it out, maybe Dan can say?

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