Could it be as simple as the condition of the Initiator hasn’t changed, thus the state of the Subject remains unchanged?
So you mean it’s edge driven instead of level driven; could be since this morning all three are in Inhibited state. That means Case closed for me.
Thanks again for your guidance !
Regards
Alain
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Great to hear that you’ve reached your goals.
I hope the journey hasn’t been too bumpy for you.
Given your extensive experience with other programming styles, have you any feedback?
(I came to Velbus from a theatrical background, where any programming was in propriety environments)
Thanks for closing this out, I really appreciate your interactions.
Let’s go 200% off-topic.
My biggest “problem” is selecting the action that executes the logic I have in my head.
Like I said, I know the EXACT logic I need to control the blinds based on several inputs. But what action does that?? If I’m not mistaken there are over 250 actions. The user must attempt to translate a linguistic description into a logical function / action. Language is open to interpretation, a logical function is NOT.
Why not developing an IEC61131-3 compliant user interface for Velbus and let users program their own binary logic. I’m pretty sure that will be fewer efforts for Velleman engineers than maintaining those 200+ actions.
Lucky us you are on this forum !
Thanks again for your guidance.
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Obviously, you are right… Mostly
But with a small detail.
If… Velbus became another variant of an existing system, it becomes the same.
We aren’t the same.
In a lot of ways, it’s so much easier.
Until, you come to it from one of the others and the route to the solutions feels so very alien.
To put that another way…
I came to Velbus from a (mostly) DMX or IP background, it felt a bit alien to me.
However, what I can tell you is that I can bring a room of students up to speed in less than 3 hours with Velbus. (Lighting and heating / cooling control)
Granted, we don’t touch any advanced GATE style logic in that time, but I show them OR gates… Without telling them I’m showing them an OR gate 
Your use case is on the edges of what might be considered normal or achieveble purely within Velbus, but it’s certainly possible.
Once you wrap you head around Inihit & force actions
What I particularly like / enjoy is throwing some software logic into the mix from Node-RED
Velbus does it’s thing, nicely and quietly without fuss.
And NodeRed, openHAB, OpenRemote, HomeAssistant, Trigrr, Control4 etc etc sit on top of that and service the advanced automation side.
With the nice failsafe that should the computer have a bad day, you haven’t lost the mission critical functionality
- Your heating will still work
- Your lighting will continue to operate
- Your blinds still still close if it gets to bright outside or hot inside
Thank you, that’s very kind of you to say.
I really appreciate it.
it is not because you use an IEC 61131-3 compliant user interface that your hardware becomes one in a million. One has nothing to do with the other.
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