HS module 16570

Jul 10, 2010

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16570 This module is for Gira HomeServer 3 installers and it is intended to be used in conjunctions with QuadClient graph plug-in. All necessary information are included in the download.

The module is currently at version 1.1

Changelog:

1.0 – initial version
1.1 – corrected a bug when the max value would not drop under zero when it should do so

Download:

16570_QCdiagramhelperv1.1.zip

Installation:

Put the .hsl file into the location of logic files of Expert software, then I recommend a computer restart or at least a logoff/logon procedure. I also succesfully experimented closing Expert software and restarting it but the documented (thus recommended) procedure is to restart the computer.

Please note if you updated to Expert 2.4 from an old version, the location of logic folder changed from the Program Files… folders to UsersPublicDocuments… folders

Update:

As mentioned in the comment area, the QuadClient graph plug-in is not as straightforward as the normal HS graph plugin is. Below is the recommended numbers of cycles based on GIRA feedback on the subject:

for Hour Diagram: sample at every minute, so enter number 1 at Cycles (no.) input and 60 rows (memory ring) archive should be created
for Day Diagram: sample at every 50 minutes, so enter number 50 at Cycles (no.) input and 29 rows (memory ring) archive should be created. You can safely change the number at 25 instead of 24 and leave the 60 rows archive in place
for Week Diagram: sample at every 100 minutes, so enter number 100 at Cycles (no.) input and 101 rows (memory ring) archive should be created
for Month Diagram: sample at every day, so enter number 1440 at Cycles (no.) input and 31 rows (memory ring) archive should be created
for Year Diagram: around 5 samples a month, so I suggest one sample every 6 days thus please enter number 8640 at Cycles (no.) input and use a 61 rows (memory ring) archive

There is no need to operate changes inside the module definition. All the above numbers represent minimum memory utilisation for best diagrams display. You can always use more frequent sampling and larger archives but as a best practice try to divide the above number of cycles to whatever number you want and get an integer as a result (e.g. from 1440 you can safely use 720, 480, 360, 288, 240, 180, 144, 120, 90, 72, 60, 45, 36, 30, 18, 15, 12, 10, 9, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 depending on your other uses for the archive). Make sure you scale the number of rows in the archive definition with the same factor you divide the recommended number of cycles!

Sample project:

Please write a comment if you have any troubles with that.

Comments

6 responses to “HS module 16570”

Richard

10/07/2010

It seems that the QuadClient graph plugin requires more than 60 point to start to display the diagrams for Day view (and the rest). I modified my archives to hold 120 rows and cut in half the cycles for day, week, month and year archive. Will post a new comment if I discover more about this.

The normal graphs in Home Server menu are not affected by this problem.
Richard

26/07/2010

The feedback from Gira is not very useful. I tested their recommended values and the graphs are not even displayed.

Returning to the 240 rows archives for the displaying interval, this value seems to work nice for day, week and month diagrams. However the year diagram looks bad, with many graph discontinuities. I suppose the year diagram will work well with 365 rows archive (one value per day).

Next step I am trying that setup and I will be back with results in about 3 weeks or so.
Richard

19/08/2010

As the new Gira HomeServer/FacilityServer App for iPod, iPhone and iPad is out I tried the diagrams and had the surprise they did not work. As it turns out 240 points are not enough for this client even though in QuadClient the diagrams get plotted just fine.

Therefore I decided to increase the ring memory for archives (day, week, month and year) to 480. On the same time I needed samples twice as frequent so I divided the cycle numbers in half.

With the new setup diagrams would plot correctly in the iPhone app too.

As a strange note, even if the plot was not there I could move my finger over the plot area and the app responded with correct timestamp and recorded values in numeric format. Only the plot was not there…

Another thing is that some part of the plot is still missing. For instance in the day diagram the last 50 minutes are not plotted. Not sure why is that, I suspect it has something to do with the clock management and the user time zone.
Scott

22/11/2011

Hi Richard,

Thank you very much for the clear explanation, very helpful. All my graphs are working except the hour graph. Can you give me your data on the settings?
My settings are ring memory 60 and to reload the graph in quadclient every 2 minutes. I am recording the values every minute as in your example above. The graph works in the visualisation but not in the QC. Also I know it is recording the data correct since I viewed the CSV file of the archive via the hslist.

Thank you,
Scott
Scott

22/11/2011

After having spent much time on the problem I finally solved it. There was a difference in time zone setting between the HS and my PC. Now they are the same and it works!
Problem is solved now. Thanks again.
Richard

22/11/2011

Hi Scott,
It is good to know that time zone settings can affect the display data. Thanks for sharing that.