Timers (Weekly timer und year-timer)
EIBPORT contains a Weak- and a Year-Timer:
Week Timer
A 24-hour profile will be allocated to the subscribers. Beneath to the 7 days of week, you can parameterize additionally 3 special days. By a clicking the timeline, switch-on time will be entered, a double-click determines the deactivating point; three times of click will erase this point. Releasing of the weekly timer will be controlled by a connection to the year timer. In annual clock switching points are inactive, week modus and special days 1 to 3 were seated. Therewith the year timer decides on which days of month which configuration of week clock will take place. “W” for weekdays Monday to Sunday, S1 to S1 for the special days and “non-active” for no function at all.
Year Timer
Output type: Link to week timer (non EIS): Week clock, which is connected by a respective group address, will be controlled. On timeline of months you can configurate which mode of week clock will be activated, “W” for normal week days, “S1 to S3” for the special days or “disable” for no function at all. First you choose the modus, after that, you place it on the month timeline.
Output type Enable group address (EIS1): Annual clock is not being connected with a week clock. It activates or deactivates one or several subscribers by itself. For configuration state of “ON“ or „OFF“ will be chosen and will be placed as desired on the month time line. Clock will always switch at 0:00 clock on respective day.
Note: The year timer always switches at 12:00 a.m. Thus, all changes e. g. to a special day will not be applied before the beginning of the corresponding day.
Parameter
Detect leaps in time:
In similar circumstances it will be possible, that a switching point will be skipped (by a new clock time of a NTP server, for example). That will engender, that determined switches will not be performed. These kinds of leaps in time could be controlled optionally, so that a function will be ensured anyhow.
Overwrite:
In case control box is activated, no local operation is possible. Telegram value is determined exclusively by the timer.
Initiate:
If control box is activated, clock sends, after a phase of initialisation (e.g.: restart of EIBPORT, modification of the job parameters), the actual telegram value. If this function is not activated, telegram value will be sent only to the defined switching points.
Note: If the option "Initialise timer" is enabled in the job, the timer will at once send its current state after each saving process. Depending on the extent of interconnection between the timer and other functions and the job, this can cause a temporary overload of the system! It is therefore recommended that you use this function sparingly.
Initialising approval (for week timer only)
If this option is activated in the week timer, then the current status of the week timer is sent as soon as approval is granted by the “connection to year switching timer” item.
Job Name
Required field. Assign a unique name for the job. The name must not contain more than 15 characters.
Gate Group Addresses
By Gate Group Addresses job will be released or blocked. The release object releases or locks the job. It is about an EIS1 object:
Field blank = Job is released.
Field completed, value 1 = Job released.
Field completed, value 0 = job locked.
Field completed, no value = job locked.
As soon as one address is filled in, release will behave respective to the value of the group address. If no value was sent to the address and the address is presently without values, job will be blocked.