Override for the overrides
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:15 pm
Hi,
Currently the protocol allows you to mask any relay on or off to override the state that the software would normally put it in.
This is a great feature and one that I use all the time. However, one aspect of it scares me a little. My dosing pumps are on relays and those relays show up on my Android Client and my PC Client. A misguided button click could mask a dosing pump on and kill everything in my tank.
I think it would be cool if there were a hard programmed mask for the masks. There should be a seperate mask for the on mask and the off mask That way, an outlet could be be capable of being masked off, but not masked on or vice versa.
I think it would be pretty easy to add, kind of like the Overheat or feeding mode masks, but called master mask or something like that.
Does that make sense? It is kind of hard to explain.
Don
Currently the protocol allows you to mask any relay on or off to override the state that the software would normally put it in.
This is a great feature and one that I use all the time. However, one aspect of it scares me a little. My dosing pumps are on relays and those relays show up on my Android Client and my PC Client. A misguided button click could mask a dosing pump on and kill everything in my tank.
I think it would be cool if there were a hard programmed mask for the masks. There should be a seperate mask for the on mask and the off mask That way, an outlet could be be capable of being masked off, but not masked on or vice versa.
I think it would be pretty easy to add, kind of like the Overheat or feeding mode masks, but called master mask or something like that.
Does that make sense? It is kind of hard to explain.
Don