[solved] Gira KNX Alarmsystem: Set off Alarm when Device is armed and polled by binding

Hi,
i somewhat successfully migrated my knx setup to the new binding. But my big problem is that i can’t use it with my Alarm System.

Version: openHAB 2.3.0 Build #1237
Gira Alarmzentrale KNX

Everytime the device/thing is polled, the alarm is activated.
The Device thinks there is something like a sabotage. In the device log i found an entry (“programmierversuch”) which translates to something like “someone tries to program me, but i am armed…” so the alarm rings.

Now you think, “why dont you set device poll to 0?” well, if i do that, i dont get any updates of my states like “armed / unarmed” “motion detected” and so on.

I did have something like that with the knx1 binding - but that could be fixed with autoupdate = false.
Also, onetime, this happend when a backup job sets the “archived” attribute to the items-file. this causes openhab to read all knx GA’s and setoff the alarm… (see here )

so, does anybody have some tipps or hints for me?

Cheers,

Update: Here is the trace log:

2018-03-24 08:15:27.765 [DEBUG] [.knx.handler.AbstractKNXThingHandler] - 'knx:device:36288ed0' will be polled every 300s
2018-03-24 08:15:27.891 [DEBUG] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' received a Group Write telegram from 'GA_OF_AZ_REMOVED_BY_ME' for destination '4/3/6'
2018-03-24 08:15:27.892 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '4/3/6' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:SSB1_STATUS_SCHARF'
2018-03-24 08:15:27.892 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '4/3/6' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:SSB1_STATUS_SCHARF'
2018-03-24 08:15:28.049 [DEBUG] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' received a Group Write telegram from 'GA_OF_AZ_REMOVED_BY_ME' for destination '4/3/8'
2018-03-24 08:15:28.050 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '4/3/8' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:STATUS_UNSCHARF'
2018-03-24 08:15:28.050 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '4/3/8' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:STATUS_UNSCHARF'
2018-03-24 08:15:28.209 [DEBUG] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' received a Group Write telegram from 'GA_OF_AZ_REMOVED_BY_ME' for destination '4/3/3'
2018-03-24 08:15:28.210 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '4/3/3' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:SSB1_SIGNAL_SCHARF_IMPULSE'
2018-03-24 08:15:28.210 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '4/3/3' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:SSB1_SIGNAL_SCHARF_IMPULSE'
2018-03-24 08:15:28.212 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '4/3/3' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:SSB1_SIGNAL_UNSCHARF_IMPULSE'
2018-03-24 08:15:28.212 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '4/3/3' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:SSB1_SIGNAL_UNSCHARF_IMPULSE'
2018-03-24 08:15:28.359 [DEBUG] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' received a Group Write telegram from 'GA_OF_AZ_REMOVED_BY_ME' for destination '4/3/10'
2018-03-24 08:15:28.360 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '4/3/10' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:SSB1_STATUS_UNSCHARF_NACH_ALARM'
2018-03-24 08:15:28.360 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '4/3/10' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:SSB1_STATUS_UNSCHARF_NACH_ALARM'
2018-03-24 08:15:28.516 [DEBUG] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' received a Group Write telegram from 'GA_OF_AZ_REMOVED_BY_ME' for destination '4/3/1'
2018-03-24 08:15:28.517 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '4/3/1' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:SSB1_ALARM'
2018-03-24 08:15:28.517 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '4/3/1' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:SSB1_ALARM'
2018-03-24 08:15:28.667 [DEBUG] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' received a Group Write telegram from 'GA_OF_AZ_REMOVED_BY_ME' for destination '4/3/4'
2018-03-24 08:15:28.668 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '4/3/4' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:SSB1_SCHALT_BEREIT'
2018-03-24 08:15:28.668 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '4/3/4' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:SSB1_SCHALT_BEREIT'
2018-03-24 08:15:28.875 [DEBUG] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' received a Group Write telegram from 'GA_OF_AZ_REMOVED_BY_ME' for destination '4/4/0'
2018-03-24 08:15:28.876 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '4/4/0' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:SSB1_STOER_ALARM_UEBERWACHUNG'
2018-03-24 08:15:28.876 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '4/4/0' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:SSB1_STOER_ALARM_UEBERWACHUNG'
2018-03-24 08:15:29.027 [DEBUG] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' received a Group Write telegram from 'GA_OF_AZ_REMOVED_BY_ME' for destination '4/1/0'
2018-03-24 08:15:29.027 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '4/1/0' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:AG_BLITZ'
2018-03-24 08:15:29.027 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '4/1/0' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:AG_BLITZ'
2018-03-24 08:15:29.179 [DEBUG] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' received a Group Write telegram from 'GA_OF_AZ_REMOVED_BY_ME' for destination '4/1/1'
2018-03-24 08:15:29.180 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '4/1/1' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:AG_SIRENE'
2018-03-24 08:15:29.180 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '4/1/1' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:AG_SIRENE'
2018-03-24 08:15:29.351 [DEBUG] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' received a Group Write telegram from 'GA_OF_AZ_REMOVED_BY_ME' for destination '5/0/1'
2018-03-24 08:15:29.352 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '5/0/1' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:ZEILE_1'
2018-03-24 08:15:29.352 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '5/0/1' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:ZEILE_1'
2018-03-24 08:15:29.551 [DEBUG] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' received a Group Write telegram from 'GA_OF_AZ_REMOVED_BY_ME' for destination '5/0/2'
2018-03-24 08:15:29.556 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '5/0/2' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:ZEILE_2'
2018-03-24 08:15:29.556 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '5/0/2' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:ZEILE_2'
2018-03-24 08:15:29.750 [DEBUG] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' received a Group Write telegram from 'GA_OF_AZ_REMOVED_BY_ME' for destination '5/0/3'
2018-03-24 08:15:29.751 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '5/0/3' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:ZEILE_3'
2018-03-24 08:15:29.751 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '5/0/3' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:ZEILE_3'
2018-03-24 08:15:30.280 [DEBUG] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' received a Group Write telegram from 'GA_OF_AZ_REMOVED_BY_ME' for destination '4/3/1'
2018-03-24 08:15:30.281 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '4/3/1' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:SSB1_ALARM'
2018-03-24 08:15:30.281 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Thing 'knx:device:36288ed0' processes a Group Write telegram for destination '4/3/1' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:SSB1_ALARM'
2018-03-24 08:15:36.428 [TRACE] [.internal.handler.DeviceThingHandler] - Handling command 'OFF' for channel 'knx:device:36288ed0:SSB1_SCHARF_MANUELL'

Well, i found a solution… just remove the GA from the thing, and everything falls into place :wink:
At least i don’t have to go back to knx1 :slight_smile: