Strange Weeder Board Log Entry

[James Sentman]

Good morning George,

It appears that there is a weeder on the chain with it’s address set to D. It’s not a unit in XTension but rather a weeder physically set to D via the dip switches on the board that set it’s address.

Do you have a weeder on that chain that is not in use or that you haven’t setup in XTension yet? It might be that simple. I’m a little concerned that it’s transmitting when XTension won’t be talking to is because it doesn’t know it’s there. But it may be sending input changes or some such. I shouldn’t be polling it if it doesn’t exist in XTension yet. It might also be that a specific board type is sending a message in a different format or one that I don’t understand or something else interesting is happening.

Look for a weeder on that physical connection string with the dip switches set to an address of capital D so something like: 00011

and let me know if such a thing is there. It might also be a fluke of a wiring issue if the serial ports are coming loose or something like that it could be dropping bits and causing corruption of some of the messages.



> On May 2, 2021, at 3:41 AM, ghandley at kc.rr.com wrote:
> 
> s there anyone out there with Weeder board experience who can tell me what the following Weeder board error log entries mean? I'm getting them constantly, but can't see any pattern. Also, there is no "D" unit on the interface.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> George
> 
> Apr 28, 2021 1:04:07 AM.9328 BasementEastBank2: weeder message recieved for unknown weeder ID "D" message: "3FDD" (BasementEastBank2)
> Apr 28, 2021 1:04:15 AM.1462 BasementEastBank2: weeder message recieved for unknown weeder ID "D" message: "3FDD" (BasementEastBank2)
> 

Thanks,
 James


James Sentman                       http://www.PlanetaryGear.org		http://MacHomeAutomation.com




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