
Convert hex to decimal
Hi,
I have data that is in HEX but I want to dispay them as decimal is there any function for this? I have not found anything.
And another question; is it possible to enable/disable an device through a command or variable?
The device I am currently working on only has the communication port open for about 20 seconds than it closes resulting in many connected/disconnected messages.
I would like to enable the device, send the command, get an response then disable the device.

Using Node Control
Hi,
i try to use node control like shown in the Demo, to control settings of our heat.
i do not find any way how this work in my bos control.
in the demo, if i will add an object, it shows node control. in my development
it shows only panel link. so what do i wrong.
hope anyone can help me.

Weather default
Hey, Is there any issue with the weather ad-hoc service in BoS, this has suddenly started to happen with no changes whatsoever.

Everspring SP816
Hello,
I would like to use an Everspring SP816 outdoor motion detector.
I can include it into the Z-Wave network, but then status remains "NotConfigured" and nothing is working - can't even get the battery status. Is it not supported ?
I'm also getting an error message when looking at parameters :
« La référence d’objet n’est pas définie à une instance d’un objet »
Sorry, it's French, but even in French it doesn't make much sense to me :-(
If you don't support this device, what OUTDOOR motion detector do you support ?
Thanks,
François

How to activate bOS Pro lisence for Win10 bOS revoked before.
Hi,
I installed bOS to Win10 for trial license bofore and it was revoked now.
And I bought bOS PRO license, I want to activate this bOS by the bOS Pro license.
Please let me know how to activate

Exit command
Hi everyone,
i was wondering when closing a programm in bOS server if exit command should be used. It works in both cases (with and without exit).
As it starts with a default Start command, an exit command at the end will free the allocated memory or is it not necessary?
Best regards,
Charis Meidanis

Dropping connections
I have a series of Programs scheduled overnight, and it came to notice some of them did not ran due to connection errors. As they are depended on each other, connection-drops cause. When I take a closer look to the logs, I see a lot of my devices (if not all) periodically drop connection... I'm not so much worried about the Hue, SonnyBoy and Electricity monitor connections, but the KNX device which needs to reconnect every other minutes worries me...
Is this a know issue? Or more network related? Or...?
Thanks for your help.

Program between hours (timeframe)
Hi there,
I'm trying to sync my Hue motion detectors and my KNX detectors. In order to do so, I need to turn on the lights differently depending on the hour.
Between 08h and 22h, the light needs to be "Bright" and between 22h and 8h it needs to be "Dimmed".
So I set up a program with specific "if" statements, but the script gets confused. I think I applied the wrong order or nesting...
I have following config:
But I have several rogue scenarios where lights don't turn on (correctly).
How can I "nest" if-clauses or even create an if-else statement?
Best,
Michiel

Serialisation order when trigger is activated
Hi,
We're facing some challenges on variable values due to the unknown approach BOS takes when executing programmes triggered by the same variable. It woudl be good to understand the approach to parallelisation and serialisation BOS follows
Let's say you have 5 programmes, A,B,C,D,E that are only executed when Sun changes position changes to "DAY". How does BOS decide which programme is executed first? There is a first, the five programmes do not start in parallel at the same time, that is a fact based on the tests I have done which are proving the troublesome issued being faced. What I mean by the latter is that A might be halfway executed by the time E starts the execution, so if you have variables used as input of those 5 programmes then there is an issue if some of those variables are not yet updated for the reasons we're calling out.
Can the BOS team shed some light on how
1) Execution order is decided at the time of triggering the trigger that activates the programme
2) How does BOS decides the order, is it alphabetical?

Hello all,
if bOS would be using serial / synchronous execution in drivers / tasks / themes, than nothing would work :) Of course bOS is handing every program task as async (multithreading) and the underlying OS is in charge for managing those threads and deploying CPU time to each individual thread. We also cannot talk in ms precision here (also I don't think it is required in HA) because of multiple factors:
- underlaying OS is not a Real Time OS
- protocols for HA are usually slow
- response time of physical devices
- ...
Anyway I also did some test and they were all executed without any delays. However this were just simple tasks to log message. In your case, there might be other issues in the individual task itself if it is more complex, if you are running other tasks from the original task...
Of course there will be delays, but in general we did not receive any concerns about speed of execution so far from any of our customers.
But as I mentioned earlier the delay is not always related to us, e.g. if you try to control 50 KNX lights at once you will see that they will not turn on at the same moment, because KNX TP speed is 9600 bit/s, which means it can transfer 20-40 packets per second, so the main bottle neck here is a speed of KNX bus and there is nothing we can do and in my opinion that is not even a issue.
Best regards,
Matic

Date and Time capturing to pass on KNX bus
There are a couple of similar posts, but none really hits the nail on the head as maybe I have a different problem. BOS server version latest 4.8.14
The situation is very simple, I want to create three variables (date, time, timestamp) in BOS, which are then mapped or given the same addresses as KNX so BOS effectively populates the KNX addresses and issues the date and time to the KNX BUS. However, there are continues issues, despite several and lengthy testing performed
Current BOS variables created
Current KNX variables created in ETS5
Time, seems to be working fine
Date,
- First problem, the value type, KNX 11.001, allows for the time, but the time value is actually not populated by BOS
- Second problem, if status address is populated in the BOS variable it creates problems for BOS and the date is no longer transmitted/populated
- Third problem, the associated KNX variable, spits errors, despite being the same value type
BOS variable
KNX variable
Errors spit in transforming
Timestamp,
- First problem, the time is not populated, only the hour of the time is, minutes and seconds are not populated
- Second problem, the KNX variable is not populated, not a single field
BOS variable
KNX variable
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