Elk Amplifier trigger pages

[afenn]

I have tried everything I can think of... I really need some more ideas..

Within the Elk, I turn an output on when the amplifier turns on to trigger a paging system. That works great.. However, I want to suppress the message you get when you arm or disarm an area. There seems to be a race condition that when the amp turns on , the trigger output turns on before I can do anything to suppress it with another rule that triggers on arm/disarm.

Any ideas on how I can suppress only these two messages?

Thanks!

Adam

 

[rfdesq]

I just started playing with ELKRP for you. How about altering the arm/disarm message for just silence? Or, if you want to keep the messages how about putting some silence before the message so maybe you can turn off the amplifier before the message plays?

 

[afenn]

I got it!!

Here's what I did...

WHENEVER Area 1 (Area 1) ARM STATE BECOMES ARMED
THEN TURN Output 204 ON FOR 5 SECS
WHENEVER Area 1 (Area 1) ARM STATE BECOMES DISARMED
THEN TURN Output 204 ON FOR 5 SECS
WHENEVER EVERY 1 SECONDS
AND AUDIO AMPLIFIER STATUS =ON
AND OUTPUT 204 STATE IS OFF
THEN TURN Audio Output Tgr (Out 3) ON
WHENEVER AUDIO AMPLIFIER STATUS TURNS OFF
THEN TURN Audio Output Tgr (Out 3) OFF

rfdesq.. I tried changing the messages to blank, but "Area 1" still gets announced. Even if I could get rid of that, I think the system would still turn the amp on and off again, which would create a audible pop when the system turns on and off.

Nice idea about turning the amp off before it plays though.. That might work.

 

[Spanky]

Good job afenn!