DELInstallations said:
If I remember right there's a FPN in the XSP manual about this, or at least was one of Elk's white papers on their old site.....from memory, I believe it can be done but the polling slows down the panel or XSP significantly so they put some guidelines out.
Been a while.
DEL
The xsp installation manual states that the Elk will see status sent from the upb switch by telling the switch to transmit status when switched using upstart. It will not see a link which may contain several state changes of several switches, the elk is not programmed to receive all that information.
Here is a quote from the manual:
UPB Device Status Broadcasts:
UPB devices contain a programmable option called "Transmit Changes" or "Report light level after rocker switch is pressed."
Enabling this option in a UPB device allows the M1XSP and M1 to receive "Load Status Change" broadcasts from the device.
This UPB UPStart PC Software is required for enabling this option. Look under the "Rocker Switch" tab. SEE LIMITATIONS.
LIMITATIONS -
UPB Devices DO NOT BROADCAST their change after a UPB LINK Command
UPB LINKs are powerful commands, capable of simultaneously affecting from 1 to 256 devices on the network. LINKs
can provide some impressive visual lighting affects, but they also have one undesireable negative trait. UPB devices
DO NOT Broadcast their current status when changed by a LINK command. The principle reason is if a lot of devices
attempted to broadcast all at once the network could be overwhelmed. This could result in traffic collisions, slow
network response, and/or lost communications. Basically the UPB protocol does not allow devices to broadcast their
status following LINK commands. And if the UPB devices aren't broadcasting their status after LINK commnands then
M1 cannot accurately display the lighting status. This is a UPB protocol limitation and there is no workaround of
solution that ELK can offer to resolve this limitation. The bottom line is: UPB devices DO NOT and CANNOT be
programmed to broadcast (report) their status when changed by a LINK command.
Mike.