Defining 2 Partitions in DSCAlarm

Hi Again

I have 2 partitions on my DSC alarm. I have managed to get 1 partition working 100%. However on the second partition, it seems thats its status in Openhab is not displaying correctly. I probably have defined something incorrectly. The Zones on Partition 2 show up correctly however the status for Partition 2 seems to be following status for Partition 1. When Partition 1 is ready , Partition 2 will also state Ready. Envisalink displays this correctly. I probably have misconfgured it on my end. Here is my things file

Bridge dscalarm:envisalink:NewBridge[ ipAddress=“192.168.168.168”, password="****", pollPeriod=15 ]
{
Thing panel panel[ userCode="*****" ]
Thing partition partition1 [ partitionNumber=1 ]
Thing zone zone1 [ partitionNumber=1, zoneNumber=1 ]
Thing zone zone2 [ partitionNumber=1, zoneNumber=2 ]
Thing zone zone3 [ partitionNumber=1, zoneNumber=3 ]
Thing zone zone4 [ partitionNumber=1, zoneNumber=4 ]
Thing zone zone5 [ partitionNumber=1, zoneNumber=5 ]
Thing zone zone6 [ partitionNumber=1, zoneNumber=6 ]
Thing zone zone7 [ partitionNumber=1, zoneNumber=7 ]
Thing zone zone8 [ partitionNumber=1, zoneNumber=8 ]
Thing zone zone9 [ partitionNumber=1, zoneNumber=9 ]
Thing zone zone10 [ partitionNumber=1, zoneNumber=10 ]
Thing zone zone11 [ partitionNumber=1, zoneNumber=11 ]
Thing zone zone13 [ partitionNumber=1, zoneNumber=13 ]
Thing zone zone16 [ partitionNumber=1, zoneNumber=16 ]
Thing partition partition2 [ partitionNumber=2 ]
Thing zone zone12 [ partitionNumber=2, zoneNumber=12 ]
Thing zone zone14 [ partitionNumber=2, zoneNumber=14 ]
Thing zone zone15 [ partitionNumber=2, zoneNumber=15 ]

Thing keypad keypad

Hello @zizebra,

Can you post your items and sitemap setup for partition 2?

Thanks,
Russell

hi Russel
I had to laugh at myself because your request made me realise my mistake, the channel portion in my items file was still referncing the partition 1
/* DSC Alarm Partition Items */
String PARTITION1_STATUS “Partition 1 Status: [%s]” (DSCAlarmPartitions) {channel=“dscalarm:partition:NewBridge:partition1:partition_status”}
Number PARTITION1_ARM_MODE “Partition 1 Arm” (DSCAlarmPartitions) {channel=“dscalarm:partition:NewBridge:partition1:partition_arm_mode”}
Switch PARTITION1_ARMED (DSCAlarmPartitions) {channel=“dscalarm:partition:NewBridge:partition1:partition_armed”}
Switch PARTITION1_ENTRY_DELAY (DSCAlarmPartitions) {channel=“dscalarm:partition:NewBridge:partition1:partition_entry_delay”}
Switch PARTITION1_EXIT_DELAY (DSCAlarmPartitions) {channel=“dscalarm:partition:NewBridge:partition1:partition_exit_delay”}
Switch PARTITION1_IN_ALARM (DSCAlarmPartitions) {channel=“dscalarm:partition:NewBridge:partition1:partition_in_alarm”}
String PARTITION1_OPENING_CLOSING_MODE “Opening/Closing Mode: [%s]” (DSCAlarmPartitions) {channel=“dscalarm:partition:NewBridge:partition1:partition_opening_closing_mode”}

String PARTITION2_STATUS “Partition 2 Status: [%s]” (DSCAlarmPartitions) {channel=“dscalarm:partition:NewBridge:partition2:partition_status”}
Number PARTITION2_ARM_MODE “Partition 2 Arm” (DSCAlarmPartitions) {channel=“dscalarm:partition:NewBridge:partition2:partition_arm_mode”}
Switch PARTITION2_ARMED (DSCAlarmPartitions) {channel=“dscalarm:partition:NewBridge:partition2:partition_armed”}
Switch PARTITION2_ENTRY_DELAY (DSCAlarmPartitions) {channel=“dscalarm:partition:NewBridge:partition2:partition_entry_delay”}
Switch PARTITION2_EXIT_DELAY (DSCAlarmPartitions) {channel=“dscalarm:partition:NewBridge:partition2:partition_exit_delay”}
Switch PARTITION2_IN_ALARM (DSCAlarmPartitions) {channel=“dscalarm:partition:NewBridge:partition2:partition_in_alarm”}
String PARTITION2_OPENING_CLOSING_MODE “Opening/Closing Mode: [%s]” (DSCAlarmPartitions) {channel=“dscalarm:partition:NewBridge:partition2:partition_opening_closing_mode”}

Thank you

rsstephens Russell Stephens
December 21 |

Hello @zizebra,

Can you post your items and sitemap setup for partition 2?

Thanks,
Russell

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