Check My Destiny is a diagnostic utility built-in to the Ubiquity software.
It provides you with a detailed analysis of the status and control commands
being received and sent by the Domain Controller. It is constantly running
and storing information along with any problems that occur - it is AWARE
(Always Watching And Reporting Errors).
Open Check
My Destiny
Bring up the House Menu by clicking in the
white space OUTSIDE of all rooms on the floor plan view of the Browser
GUI.
You will get the menu at the right. |
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Click on the "Check My Destiny"
button.
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Check
My Destiny Default Screen
You will get a menu something like the one
on the right. The "+" plus sign on the left of a line means
that the line can be expanded further by clicking on the "+"
plus sign (or even to the right of it on the same line).
The "-" minus sign means that it
has already been expanded and can be un-expanded by clicking on it.
Click on the "+" to the left of
the Domain Controller named "D3K 1".
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You will get the menu at the right. From here,
you can get information about:
The software version
of the Domain Controller,
Its network addresses,
and
All of the ports on
the back of the Domain Controller.
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Serial Ports
Drill down further to open up the "Serial
Ports", and you will get the high level information about what "type"
of device they are connected to.
In the example at the right, Serial Port 1
is connected Lutron Homeworks. |
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Continue drilling down on the heading "Devices
controlled by Serial Port 1" for systems such as lighting systems
to see every light and keypad connected to the Domain Controller. |
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Or drill down on the "List of commands
sent & received" to see the last 5 commands sent and received
on this serial port with a time stamp attached and a green "OK"
if the command could be properly sent and was properly acknowledged. Note
that usually the window would be stretched out so that the whole line
could appear without rapping to the next line. It is much easier to read
that way.
Click on "[Show
last 20 cmds]" to see the last 20 commands instead of the
last 5 commands.
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Click on "[Send
Cmd]" and a menu will pop up allowing you to type an ASCII
command and send it out on the serial port in real time.
Use "\r"
to send a carriage return, "\n"
to send a carriage return linefeed, and "0x" to send hexadecimal.
The ASCII is sent when you press the "Enter" key on your PC
keyboard.
Effectively you have a "Hyper Terminal"
connection for every port always up and running. |
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IR Outputs
Similarly, you can drill down on the "IR
Outputs" and click "[Send Cmd]".
It bring us a similar looking pop up menu, but this time you paste IR
learned commands (e.g., from Pronto Edit) into the white box before pressing
the "Enter" key on your PC keyboard. |
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Relays
With the "Relays" you can "Energize"
and "De-energize" them by clicking on the blue links at the
end of the line.
List
of commands sent - One little quirk
One little quirk is that if you expand line
labeled "List of commands sent" before any commands have been
sent, you will not see any commands sent or any notice saying that no
commands have been sent yet. You can see this under "Relay 1"
where the "-" minus sign shows the line has been expanded, but
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Global Cache
Similar information is available for the ports
associated with Global Cache. |
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Lutron
Only the Lutron relays show up under the Lutron
heading because the other information is already available behind the
serial port. |
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Entertainment
The "Entertainment" heading will
be your favorite one. Drill down to the room whose commands you want to
see. Here you will see all the commands for an event - basically a re-organization
of the data from the ports to show you the order in which the entertainment
equipment is being controlled.
The line in bold font is the start of an event.
The line begins with the thing that caused the event ("User Action
on Browser" in our example). Then it tells the high level objective
of the event and the time that it occurred.
Under the line in bold are the commands that
were sent and received to meet the high level objective. Each of these
has a time stamp measured in milliseconds that is the offset from the
bold line.
The event finishes with a solid line.
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AWARE Monitor
At the bottom of Check My Destiny is the "AWARE
Monitor" heading. Drill down on it to get to the command for clearing
all error flags. This will clear any red "Error" messages you
have received so that when another error occurs, you will see it more
quickly.
Also, from this part of the menu you can turn
off the OK and Error status reporting, but we do not recommend this.
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Console
Finally, back on the Domain Controller line
you see the [Console] link. Clicking
on this link brings up another browser window showing the internal status
of the controller. If you get into real problems with the system and call
our support group, they may ask you to open this up. However, this is
rare and it is unlikely that you will use the Console link. |
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