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    Automated Home Sr Member eddr's Avatar
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    Hello,

    Is it just me or are the DFP's slow to update their display/respond to button presses and even play sounds?

    Is there anyway to make things quicker? Buttons and display arn't that important, but when pressing for intercom or more importantly playing a sound, theres a good 2 - 2.5 second delay. I.e. the doorbell gets pressed, theres a good delay before the sound is played. Another example is just having a sound played when say a door opens.

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    I noticed the same when i moved on to Windows 7. It was always fine for the 1st week or so but then started to slow down and a reboot sorted it out. It turned out that I hadn't set the permissions correctly and all was fine once i sorted that little issue out

    Thanks,
    Nad

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    Hmm I'm running server 2003...

    It seems the actual DFP comes to life to play the sound almost instantly (You can hear the speaker has come to life) but the actual sound takes a long time to play - once played the speaker goes off straight after.

    I'm not sure how to work out what is causing the delay?

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    did you see Viv's reply here :

    http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/vbull...ghlight=screen

    ??

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    You can try and see what is taking place when you open a door by capturing the logging to file.

    In the following I opened my front door, it played a 'Ding' and then I closed the door.
    I then went to Cortex | Tools | Logging | Capture current communications history to log file now!
    Then I clicked View Log file.

    Here is an extract that I have annotated.

    10:44:41:140 < 91062000BA0C0481 * A packet comes in because the door is opened
    10:44:41:156 < Mouse trap * It is from a DIO module with 8 inputs
    10:44:41:171 < Central Heating Pressure
    10:44:41:203 < Hall PIR 2
    10:44:41:203 < Porch PIR
    10:44:41:218 < Key fob 1
    10:44:41:234 < Key fob 2
    10:44:41:312 < Remote Temperature * A temperature packet comes in whilst
    10:44:41:875 < 91060FF8BA00025A * processing the above
    10:44:41:906 < Front Door Bell
    10:44:41:906 < Front Door * This is the cause of packet i.e. door opening
    10:44:42:140 > All Intercom * Intercoms are turned on
    10:44:42:156 > FF09112030006208002602
    10:44:42:203 < 1820300169
    10:44:42:281 < 180062017B
    10:44:42:281 > Sound * Sound opject switches on audio bus in PCA
    10:44:42:296 > 2601
    10:44:42:312 < 1820300169
    10:44:42:343 > All Button * LED's on panels get turned on
    10:44:42:359 > FF0A112030002A08003C0105
    10:44:42:390 < 1820300169
    10:44:42:406 < 18002A0143
    10:44:42:421 > All Button
    10:44:42:437 > FF0B112030002B08003C010404
    10:44:42:468 < 1820300169
    10:44:42:484 < 18002B0144
    10:44:42:734 MediaPlayer: Start DING.WAV * PC plays Ding
    10:44:43:625 MediaPlayer: Stopped
    10:44:43:656 T> OnPlayDone * Internal message to Telephone
    10:44:43:656 > All Intercom * Intercoms going off
    10:44:43:671 > FF09112030006108002603
    10:44:43:703 < 1820300169
    10:44:43:718 < 180061017A
    10:44:43:734 > Sound * Audio bus gets switched off
    10:44:43:750 > 2600
    10:44:43:765 < 1820300169
    10:44:43:781 > All Button * LED's off
    10:44:43:796 > FF0A112030002A08003C0205
    10:44:43:843 < 91062000BA08047D * Door Closes
    10:44:43:859 < Mouse trap
    10:44:43:859 < Central Heating Pressure

    So what does this show?
    From door opening to sound playing was about 1.6 seconds.

    > arrow is packets going out
    < arrow is packet coming in

    Depending on the system configuration other 'things' may be going on.
    What is logged is dependant on options set.
    Logging 'Lots' of things (see logging diagnostics) slows the system down.
    Having the Communications window visible slows the system down.
    But not by much.

    Viv.

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    how about introducing, say, a user-defined Priority 0 possibility, which always goes first ?

    There could be many situations where this might be useful, and work well, if not overdone ...

    especially in association with selected buttons & PIRs & digital inputs ...

    seems unlikely such queue jumping would happen often enough to upset the greater scheme of things ...

    we have several situations where it would be appreciated (eg: Varilight SD lamp dimming, issuing stop commands, switching things that should run for only short bursts) ...

    how about it ?

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    ...especially in association with selected buttons & PIRs & digital inputs ...

    All incoming packets are processed immediately independant of the routine processing that ever object gets multiple times per second.

    It is the output packets that are prioritised. Lights and relay actuation have the highest priority.

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    yep, appreciate that - of course it's the consequences of chosen triggers that would want the priority ...

    hmm, lights & relays might cover it for us, though, so thanks ...

    NB: we haven't yet quite finished wiring up ... fourteen modules now installed, though, but none of them yet activated, so 'have yet to find whether we have timing issues or not !
    Last edited by chris_j_hunter; 27th July 2011 at 03:15 PM.

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    Thanks Viv

    I will look at this log tonight and see where the slow down is happening.

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