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This page describes how to automatically send events on the VSCP bus on specific, pre-determined moments. This is useful for example to every night turn off any lights that might have been left on.

Add DM row

Add a DM row to the VSCP daemon DM matrix (/srv/vscp/dm.xml):

<row enable="true" groupid="wakeup" >
    <mask  priority="0"  class="65535"  type="65535"  GUID=" 00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00" > </mask>
    <filter  priority="0"  class="65535"  type="6"  GUID=" 00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00" > </filter>
    <control>0x0</control>
    <action>0x40</action>
    <param>0,20,1,0,0,37:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:01,1,1,1</param>
    <comment></comment>
    <allowed_from>0000-01-01 00:00:00</allowed_from>
    <allowed_to>9999-12-31 23:59:59</allowed_to>
    <allowed_weekdays>mtwtfss</allowed_weekdays>
    <allowed_time>*-*-* *:*:0/20/40</allowed_time>
    <index  bMeasurement="false"  > 0</index>
    <zone>0</zone>
    <subzone>1</subzone>
</row>

Detailed explanation

Here’s a detailed explanation of the above DM row:

<row enable="true" groupid="wakeup" >

Set enable=”false” to disable the processing of this DM row. Groupid is freetext.

    <mask  priority="0"  class="65535"  type="65535"  GUID=" 00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00" > </mask>
    <filter  priority="0"  class="65535"  type="6"  GUID=" 00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00" > </filter>
    <control>0x0</control>
    <action>0x40</action>

Class CONTROL, action VSCP_DAEMON_ACTION_CODE_SEND_EVENT,0x00000040

See (VSCP daemon decision matrix docs)[http://www.vscp.org/docs/vscpd/doku.php?id=vscp_daemon_decision_matrix#actions]

    <param>0,20,1,0,0,37:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:01,1,1,1</param>

Event to send. Should be on the form head, class, type, obid, time-stamp, GUID, data1, data2, data3.

For a button press event; class 20, type 1, data1 (pressed/released/..)=1, data2 (zone)=1, data3 (subzone)=1

See (VSCP spec)[http://www.vscp.org/docs/vscpspec/doku.php?id=class1.information#type_1_0x01_button]

    <comment></comment>
    <allowed_from>0000-01-01 00:00:00</allowed_from>
    <allowed_to>9999-12-31 23:59:59</allowed_to>
    <allowed_weekdays>mtwtfss</allowed_weekdays>

Trigger event every day of the week. Other uses:

    <allowed_weekdays>mtwtf--</allowed_weekdays>

Trigger only on working days.

    <allowed_weekdays>-----ss</allowed_weekdays>

Trigger only on weekend days.

    <allowed_time>*-*-* *:*:0/20/40</allowed_time>

Trigger every 20 seconds. Other uses:

    <allowed_time>*-*-* *:0:*</allowed_time>

Trigger every start of the hour.

    <index  bMeasurement="false"  > 0</index>
    <zone>0</zone>
    <subzone>1</subzone>
</row>

Restart vscpd

Restart the VSCP daemon so that it reads the modified DM.

/usr/local/bin/vscpd restart

To do

Use CONTROL, TurnOn and TurnOff events instead of INFORMATION, BUTTON events. Requires modification of Mespelare firmware so that it responds to these events.