There is a problem with the CADDX system. Once an alarm enters the "alarm memory" state, we (those of us on the JDS Users newsgroup) can not figure out how to reset it, except to wait for future alarm events to mysteriously overwrite them.
I had four CADDX security zones in Homeseer showing as "Alarm Memory" when clear and as "Faulted" when faulted. This would make it hard for me to have events triggered on these devices, since I'd have to have it look for a variety of states to match against the "clear" state.
I manually used the CONTROL page in Homeseer to select the devices and change them from "Alarm Memory" to "Clear". Then I faulted and cleared the zones and saw that they did indeed go back to "clear". This worked even for zones that are in the CADDX panel's current "alarm memory". I am not sure if at some point the CADDX will rebroadcast the alarm memory status of those zones, or whether Homeseer will continue to treat them as "clear"/"Faulted".
I would almost prefer to have Homeseer only show "Clear" or "Faulted" or "Bypass", since none of the other states are meaningful to me, and since the other states seem to complicate things tremendously when creating events around security devices.
I suppose I could write a script that periodically goes through all of my security zones and does some "if alarm memory, then set to clear" for each zone. It could do whatever actions are necessary for reacting to "alarm memory" zones.
RJ, how are the zones set to "alarm memory" and how is this state cleared? Is there some command from the Stargate that clears the alarm memory condition to the plug-in? This is a little troublesome, since those commands could be sent from the Stargate when Homeseer is not running or something else. I don't see an option for polling security devices, so the only way to update them might be manually, as I suggest above? The need is clear - my panel only showed 2 alarm memory zones, yet I had four listed in Homeseer, so clearly they don't update and refresh over time?
Tim
I had four CADDX security zones in Homeseer showing as "Alarm Memory" when clear and as "Faulted" when faulted. This would make it hard for me to have events triggered on these devices, since I'd have to have it look for a variety of states to match against the "clear" state.
I manually used the CONTROL page in Homeseer to select the devices and change them from "Alarm Memory" to "Clear". Then I faulted and cleared the zones and saw that they did indeed go back to "clear". This worked even for zones that are in the CADDX panel's current "alarm memory". I am not sure if at some point the CADDX will rebroadcast the alarm memory status of those zones, or whether Homeseer will continue to treat them as "clear"/"Faulted".
I would almost prefer to have Homeseer only show "Clear" or "Faulted" or "Bypass", since none of the other states are meaningful to me, and since the other states seem to complicate things tremendously when creating events around security devices.
I suppose I could write a script that periodically goes through all of my security zones and does some "if alarm memory, then set to clear" for each zone. It could do whatever actions are necessary for reacting to "alarm memory" zones.
RJ, how are the zones set to "alarm memory" and how is this state cleared? Is there some command from the Stargate that clears the alarm memory condition to the plug-in? This is a little troublesome, since those commands could be sent from the Stargate when Homeseer is not running or something else. I don't see an option for polling security devices, so the only way to update them might be manually, as I suggest above? The need is clear - my panel only showed 2 alarm memory zones, yet I had four listed in Homeseer, so clearly they don't update and refresh over time?
Tim
Comment