Devices do not have a value

[alphatech]

Hi Michael,
Not a high priority, when you update the string of most of your devices could you also please update the value of them? I.e. S79 "Solar Radiation sensor " as of an example has a string of 167 but no value. Same story with the humidity sensor, temp , wind and others.

Thanks,
Aldo

[Michael McSharry]

In HS1 and HS2 the following were used
DeviceStatus = on/off
DeviceValue = numeric

In HS3 the DeviceStatus was removed and the on/off information is now communicated in DeviceValue with typically via CAPI.

When mcsSprinklers sets DeviceStatus in HS2 it sets DeviceValue in HS3. Typically most important for things like the valves. \
When it sets DeviceValue in HS2 it sets PluginExtraData in HS3 with the value pair key being "Value".

[alphatech]

Sorry but I don't understand what you are saying, it sounds like you had it in hs2, why it was removed from HS3?
Aldo

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[Michael McSharry]

HS3 redesigned the interface so DeviceValue is used for both DeviceStatus and DeviceValue. They no long have a DeviceStatus in HS3. I tried to accommodate the best I could. The added PluginExtraData so I used that for things that had used DeviceValue in HS1 and HS2.

[alphatech]

Hi Michael, always so appreciated what you doing, although I was thinking of updating the device value = to the string value, right now I have several sensors that I would like to graph on like solar but I don't have a way to do that. The good news is that I found a treasure in your program that could fix it, you made a way to store your data in mysql. I'm right now graph based on your database and sensor table. The only question that I have would be, how difficult is to use the same values you store in the database also in device value, confused enough?

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[alphatech]

This is an example of what I'm talking about Michael.

Hi Michael, always so appreciated what you doing, although I was thinking of updating the device value = to the string value, right now I have several sensors that I would like to graph on like solar but I don't have a way to do that. The good news is that I found a treasure in your program that could fix it, you made a way to store your data in mysql. I'm right now graph based on your database and sensor table. The only question that I have would be, how difficult is to use the same values you store in the database also in device value, confused enough?

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[Michael McSharry]

Give http://mcsSprinklers.com/mcsSprinklers_21707_HS3.zip a try

[alphatech]

Michael,
Thanks for accommodating me so fast. Another great addition to you fabulous program.

On a different topic, do you see any issues if I move the sensors history data into the new created sensors table which I have switched recently to MySQL?

Thanks again,
Aldo

[Michael McSharry]

I would be a great idea to retain your prior collected data.

Note that you asked for DeviceValue to have same numeric content as DeviceString. In HS2/HS1 version of mcsSprinklers the DeviceValue was scaled by typically 100 to account for DeviceValue being an integer.

[alphatech]

Thanks Michael, the change you made is perfect.

Aldo

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