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Posted: April 28 2010 at 14:54 | IP Logged Quote smarty
During windy days, I have three screened porch zones (zones 99, 100, and 101) that I would like to bypass.

From the Elk Quick Start guide:

Support for the Elk specific control commands is available using the ph_ctlrcmd and ph_ctlrcmd1 functions. The specific controller command values and parameters are detailed below. To send an "Arming Status Request" command, the function would look like: ph_ctlrcmd1("ELKID",120,0,0,"","",1)

Arming Status Request - 120. No parms. Seconds returned in ret1. Data returned in ret3.

Alarm by Zone Request - 240. No parms. Data returned in ret3.

Zone Partition Request - 250. No parms. Data returned in ret3.

Zone Bypass Request - 260. Zone in parm1, Area in parm2, PIN in parm3. Data returned in ret1.


I have tried:

ph_ctlrcmd1("elk",260,99,1,"mycode","",1)

where:
"elk" is the name of my elk controller in PH
99 is zone I want to bypass
1 = Area Number
"mycode" = my arm/disarm code

The above formula gives me no errors, but it does not bypass the zone. Any ideas on what I need to do to have zone 99 become bypasses?

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!!WARNING!!

I have found that when I try variations of the above formula, I cause existing "Device Control" macro lines to become corrupt. Multiple lines in multiple macro's were corrupted.

To fix the corrupted "Device Control" lines, I basically had to reselect the desired choices from the Device Control drop down box in each line where device control was asked for in every macro that contained a device control for my "elk" controller.

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Posted: May 04 2010 at 11:17 | IP Logged Quote smarty
I ended up setting up an Elk Task called "Porch Bypass". I then wrote an Elk rule that bypassed the 3 zones whenever the Task was activated.


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