Re: CBus PAC Programming

["arni_skarphedinsson" <arnis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

you use Cbus group addresses to trigger things in the PAC, but you
dont have to have an actual relay or dimmer channel, just a CBUS
group, so f.e. you can make up a group name assign it to a key and
then have the PAC listen to that group name, and do something
with out the relay or dimmers beeing involved


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "markttay" <markttay@...> wrote:
>
> I have been using a PAC for a few months now, and it is a pretty
> nifty device. I have a few logic routines programmed, for instance
> if the landing sensor picks up movement after 10PM and when the
> downstairs hall lights are off (i.e. we are in bed), the assumption
> is that it is one of my children is going to the loo. The PAC
> switches on lights at 25% to the bathroom and 5 minutes later will
> switch them off again. This saves the children worrying about
> switching on lights or switching them off again when finished.
>
> I have another routine that again based on time and state of the
> lighting that will switch off all the downstairs lights from the
> bedside switch (just in case you forgot to turn them all out).
>
> These are quite useful for me, but there is a drawback - the PAC
> logic is triggered by date and time or the state of a CBus group,
so
> in order to trigger the two routines above I have to fist use the
> sensor or switch to set the lighting state of a CBus Group, this
> then triggers conditional logic in the PAC.
>
> In my limited programming experience, this seems quite wasteful -
> the only way of passing state between a CBus input device and the
> PAC (or CTouch) seems to be via a dimmer or relay channel. Unless I
> am missing something, there seems no way to trigger a PAC routine
> directly from an input device - does anyone know if this is not the
> case and I have just not read the manual enough?
>