Delays?

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Sun Aug 23, 2020 5:43 pm
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Delays?

Just curious what types of delays other people are getting. I have my RA2 repeater connected with a serial cable to the mac. Currently seeing 1.5-2 second delay for anything going from the Main Repeater > Mac > Caseta Hub > Device.

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Re: Delays?

You have both an RRa2 Main Repeater and a Caseta Hub>? That's very unusual. I'm not sure I've ever heard of anyone else doing that with the plugin.

What kind of command is the Main Repeater generating, and how are you relaying that through the Mac?

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Re: Delays?

Yea, not trying to replace 25+ Serena shades :-)

Commands are very simple, just using RA2 keypad buttons to turn individual lights on or off, and shades. Delay is the same for dimmers or shades.

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Re: Delays?

Job1 wrote:
Yea, not trying to replace 25+ Serena shades :-)

Commands are very simple, just using RA2 keypad buttons to turn individual lights on or off, and shades. Delay is the same for dimmers or shades.


Are you using button Triggers in Indigo to send the command to the shades? Can you post a screen shot of the trigger configuration?

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Re: Delays?

Try using a Button Presses (Lutron plugin) trigger instead of Device Changed.

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I was trying to, but it's just blank no matter which hub I select.

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Sun Aug 23, 2020 6:39 pm
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Re: Delays?

NM on that one, I restarted the server and I can see the buttons.

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Re: Delays?

Using button press is about the same. 1.8 or so.

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Re: Delays?

Did you select "First Press" for the event type? If so, I think it's just the delays inherent to the automation protocol and Indigo overhead. Especially if you're using a serial connection to the Main Repeater. I think Ethernet is faster, but I don't know for sure since I've never used serial myself. You could try switching to Ethernet and see if it improves. But with four transmission hops and three processing stages, it's not going to be instantaneous.

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Re: Delays?

Hot Damn!! I don't know why I stupidly thought serial would be more reliable.

Down to .8 which is a world of difference.

Thanks so much for your help!

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Wed Aug 26, 2020 4:45 pm
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Re: Delays?

One more question, is it possible to replicate the Shade Toggle button from RA2? The lighting toggle button works but is missing the Stop function.

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Job1 wrote:
One more question, is it possible to replicate the Shade Toggle button from RA2? The lighting toggle button works but is missing the Stop function.


Replicate how? What button are you actually pressing?

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Re: Delays?

Where you can create a button press to have the same action in Indigo as the Shade Toggle in RA2.

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Re: Delays?

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Where you can create a button press to have the same action in Indigo as the Shade Toggle in RA2.


Sorry, no can do. I already looked into that. The repeater knows if the shade is still moving, so a button programmed directly into the repeater knows to do a stop movement. But the plugin has no way to do that. I recommend programming a single press of the button to toggle the shade, and a double press to send the stop command.

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