Lutron Control Problems using the iRidium app

kousios

Hello all!

I would like to describe something very strange that happened to me yesterday at one of my projects and i hope that maybe someone might be able to help me solve this..

This is an AMX project with an NI-4100, R4s and iPads.

We are using the iRidium app for the iPads.

We also have Lutron Homeworks lighting and we have provided total control from the AMX system.

Now, i was sitting at the Kiosk and i turned on the Bar lights using the iPad. I dimmed the lights and then after a while, when the iPad went offline the Bar lights turned off by themselves.

I tried to re-create the event having the lights turned on at 100% and not dimmed but i couldn't. This only happened when the iPad went offline and the lights were already dimmed using the iPad.

I tried this again multiple times, having the Bar lights dimmed, and every time the iPad went offline the lights were also turned off..

In addition, when the iPad went offline i could see in the notifications that Level=0 commands were being sent but i could see no button presses or anything that would help me recognize where these commands were coming from..

I re-checked my code but i could not find anything wrong with it..

Do you have any suggestions? What might be causing this?

Thank you

vining

I bet when the iPad goes offline it will set what ever the last lighting level controlled to 0.

This would happen on a normal AMX touch panel too. When any TP goes offline levels are set to 0. You need to create a channel for your level and use the push to set a flag. Then in your level event use this flag as a conditional to qualify the level event. On release of the channel clear the flag. That way when the panel goes offline, the flag won't be set and the level event won't act on the level value changing to 0.

Auser

Combining the physical TP device with a virtual device also prevents this behaviour as the virtual device never goes offline and hence the level event with value 0 is never triggered.