Page tracking on NXD 1000Vi

Duncan Ellis
Duncan Ellis Code Junkie
in AMX Control Products
Hi

Anyone come across this one?

Page tracking is turned on, when you initially do this - a command comes back from the panel stating the current page and then after that NOTHING! In diagnostics, you can see commands go out but not coming back?????

Usually I work using virtual devices combined with the real device, but in this instance I can't because of one of the modules I've been forced to use - so I am working with the real panel device, no virtual combination
However, I did a test and combined it with a virtual and lo and behold - it works!!! not that this helps me but its a bit bizarre, to say the least!

Any takers???

thanks in advance

D.
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  • DHawthorne
    DHawthorne Junior Member
    Page tracking only works if the panel itself initiates the page flip or pop-up. If you do it in code, there is no tracking. I suppose it's assumed since you did it in code, you know about it already.
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  • Duncan Ellis
    Duncan Ellis Code Junkie
    DHawthorne wrote: »
    Page tracking only works if the panel itself initiates the page flip or pop-up. If you do it in code, there is no tracking. I suppose it's assumed since you did it in code, you know about it already.

    Hi Dave

    I've always used page tracking with a combined panel (as in combined with a virtual device) and page tracking works from code page flips.....so if what you are saying is true, why does that work???

    Cheers
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  • DHawthorne
    DHawthorne Junior Member
    Duncan Ellis wrote: »
    Hi Dave

    I've always used page tracking with a combined panel (as in combined with a virtual device) and page tracking works from code page flips.....so if what you are saying is true, why does that work???

    Cheers

    I can't speak to how it works with combined virtuals really; I don't use them anymore. It may also be a new thing, or even panel specific. My habit used to be to use page flips in the panel itself almost exclusively, and the times I didn't it wasn't necessary to track. But I have migrated towards using code, and this is simply what I have noticed and verified, at least with 435's and R4's. I don't get the tracking message from code flips, period.
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  • stephenledet
    stephenledet Junior Member
    Duncan,

    I had the same problem. NSS-Vote with code-based page flips. I had two NXT-1700VG panels that needed to track, but I wasn't getting the necessary strings back from the panels. I found that a panel will respond with its current page/popup when issued a 'TPAGEON' send_command. I added this command on the release of a button_event [dvTP,0] and it all worked.

    good luck.

    Stephen
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  • DHawthorne
    DHawthorne Junior Member
    stephenledet wrote: »
    Duncan,

    I had the same problem. NSS-Vote with code-based page flips. I had two NXT-1700VG panels that needed to track, but I wasn't getting the necessary strings back from the panels. I found that a panel will respond with its current page/popup when issued a 'TPAGEON' send_command. I added this command on the release of a button_event [dvTP,0] and it all worked.

    good luck.

    Stephen

    You only need to put TPAGEON in the ONLINE event. It shouldn't need to be sent over and over again.
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  • stephenledet
    stephenledet Junior Member
    You'd think that would work. Maybe a problem specific to those panels? I haven't tried it out with any other system configuration.
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