Haiku How to ignore Aux zones?

[neillt]

I love Haiku, by far the best app for the OmniPro.
 
But there is one thing that is driving me nuts.  I have zones that are set to Auxiliary, that act mainly as automation triggers.  Many of them are "not ready" most of the time... and it's not something the average person needs to know about.  Things like occupancy sensors and what not.  So along the top of the screen they are all scrolling by, meanwhile the true security zones, and important information like phone line and fire supervision, are jumbled up in a mess of aux zones.
 
Is there a way to get Haiku to "ignore" zones set as Auxiliary?  Or perhaps a way to filter them based on the name (i.e. a zone name that starts with # or something is ignored)?
 
I am starting on a new job site for an almost 3,500 sq/ft remodel that will have a lot of aux sensor triggers, and the owners aren't going to like it any more than I do at my own house... I can't be the only one that has this issue.
 
Thanks!

 

[lupinglade]

We've tweaked the next version to not list the auxiliary zones in the status bar.

Cheers.

 

[sjht]

Now you are getting rid of this! First they are gone from the status screen and now gone from the status bar? Can you at least give options without removing features or allow us to add programming to display aux zones? Or can I do that now?

 

[neillt]

I am actually on the other end of the spectrum, I would love to have a toggle in the settings to completely ignore them.  Maybe it could be a combo selection, like "show all", "ignore on status line" or "ignore all"?

 

[serky]

Please do not get rid of them all together.  I like them in the status bar.

 

[ano]

Get rid of them is my vote.  Previously you had said unnamed zones did not display.  That doesn't always seem to be the case since I have "Zone 31 is not ready"  displaying on the top of my status screen?  Its not named and not even used as far as I can tell. 

 

[lupinglade]

I will see if we can add an option to toggle this.

@ano: this looks like a bug, I will look into it.

 

[lupinglade]

To display status a status message for an Auxiliary Zone in the next version, just add a Message that is displayed/hidden when the zone state changes. Then it will appear in the status bar and in the Messages sections. This is the proper way to do it as Aux Zones have many, many uses and we cannot assume that they should all appear in the status bar.

 

[avpman2]

Get rid of them is my vote.  Previously you had said unnamed zones did not display.  That doesn't always seem to be the case since I have "Zone 31 is not ready"  displaying on the top of my status screen?  Its not named and not even used as far as I can tell. 

I'll  bet if you go into PCAccess->Status-->Zones you'll find Zone 31 shows "trouble." Likely a short. If you remove the short (or resistance below or significantly above 1000 ohms) it will no longer show up. I have the same problem ("feature") on the Omni consoles.

 

[fcwilt]

I put all my automation related zones into a different area - how would Haiku handle that?