Elk Display Text Refresh

[ginks]

I'm trying a "Trash Tuesday" message that gets posted Monday evening at 5PM, and when the message is posted the speaker says "Check keypad for message." It also flashes the F3 key, and another ISY program clears the message when the F3 key is pressed, along with "Message acknowledged" being spoken.

 

The problem is if the alarm changes state, i.e. when my wife or I come home and disarm the system, the text is cleared. I realize I can do a refresh every two minutes or something, but what I'd ideally like to do is when the system is disarmed to not only keep the Trash Day message up, but to again speak "Check keypad for message."

 

I think the way to accomplish this may be to set a variable as a flag for trash day, set the keypad text and speak the message. Then if the system is disarmed and the flag is true, it'll load the keypad text and speak again. Just wondering if there's an easier way to do this.

[apostolakisl]

I don't think there is an easier way. Set a flag and have the message repeat until someone takes an action that clears the flag (like pushing f3).

 

Personally, I also have a "trash tuesday". I just set isy to refresh the message every 2 minutes from Monday night at 5 pm until Tuesday morning at 9am. ISY also sends me a text at 5pm. I'm pretty sure my wife would not go for "the lady" doing a voice.

 

It should be an easy addition. Just add a line to your current program that sets the flag. Then add one more program that says something like, if Elk is disarmed and flag is 1, then run the first program "then" path. And add a line to the program that clears the message that also clears the flag.