dhoward
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| Posted: September 15 2006 at 21:47 | IP Logged
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Paul,
Currently there is no way to get PowerHome to show the status of individual buttons in the Device Status screen. It wouldnt be an easy addition either due to the database being structured to allow only unique addresses in the Insteon table.
There is no way to read the status KPL lights. The byte that controls the status of the individual button lights is not accessible (even by direct peeking or poking...essentially that memory location is protected which is why the KPL util cannot completely set a button as toggle vs on vs off). This bites, but nothing can be done until SmartHome changes the KPL firmware.
You can control a button however via a macro by merely sending a group command. You would need to first create a group with the PLC as a controller and the KPL/button as a responder and then send an on or off command to this PLC group. If a button was configured as a non-toggle on or non-toggle off however, then the group command would be overridden.
The non-toggle aspects notwithstanding, you could probably track button status fairly accurately by creating groups with the individual buttons as controllers and the PLC as a responder and then create triggers which store the status. It would be a little bit of work, but could be done.
Dave.
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