Re: xPL-FirM-Schema

["Mal Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well you are using you're own schema - so I guess you can send whatever you
need - in this case it's just a zone number.

I had a quick look at the schemas in the docs, but it seems there isn't
suitable existing one that you could use.  The remote.basic is the closest,
but requires key names, with the zone being optional.  You of course don't
have any key names.

While you can certainly set the zone for transmission, via xpl, I'm not
sure
how the receive will work - if Homevision doesn't request the zone, does
that means that the zone sent in the xpl_stat message may be wrong?

One little nitpicking detail - other schemas (like the config requests) use
command=request - your Firm.basic schema has current=request.  I wonder if
it should change, just to be consistant?

Mal



----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Mc Alinden" <fmcalind@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: [ukha_xpl] xPL-FirM-Schema


> Hi Mal
>             Thanks for replying........
> Firstly FirM was designed as an "Addon" for Homevision
....and Homevision
> encodes and decodes ALL ir signals ...all FirM does is 1: direct the
> transmitted ir (from homevision  / usb uirt)
> to the required zone........2: Informs  Homevision when requested
which
zone
> sent ir...........
>
> > 1) have the FirM controller send an xpl_trig message, containing
the
zone
> > and the IR message when IR is received from the rx unit.
>
> FirM Can only give Zone info only ....Homevision / usb uirt  receive
ir
> message and decode....
> Unable to send a trig message due to current FirM hardware......It
uses 3
> pins (bcd) for zone identification and will update the pins when ir is
> received but relies on Homevision / usb uirt to read the pins when
required
> .....Homevision  / usb uirt may not require  zone info.........
>
> > 2) Send an xpl_cmnd to FirM containing the zone and IR message to
send
> when
> > you want to transmit.
>
> Hopefully thats what im doing with the xpl message below...........the
> zoning schemas in the xpl docs seem to confuse me .....
>
> > > > xpl-cmnd
> > > > {
> > > > hop=1
> > > > source= xpl-xplhal.mainpc
> > > > target=aec-FirM.mainpc
> > > > }
> > > > FirM.basic
> > > > {
> > > > zone=1
> > > > }
>
> Thanks
> Frank
>
>
>
>
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