Chapter 3— Pushbutton Switches
To program this configuration into the device we press the “Program
Device” button. UPStart performs the necessary command steps to program
the configuration data into our device. When the command steps are
complete we can press the OK button to close the dialog.
Configuring Transmit Behaviors
The UPB communication method allows for messages to be transmitted
multiple times increasing the chance of communication success.
Transmitters can be configured to make anywhere from 1 to 4 UPB
transmission attempts for each message. This section explains the steps
necessary to configure the UPB transmission attempts option on the 6-
Button Controller.
Default Transmission Attempts
By default, the Transmission Attempts on the 6-Button Controller is set for
2 attempts. This number of attempts has been found to be sufficient to gain
well over 99.9% communication success in field-testing.
Changing Transmission Attempts
The default Transmission Attempts is fine for most situations but what if
you prefer something else? Suppose you find one module that is having
trouble communicating to another module reliably. Suppose all of your
devices are communicating great (more probably the case) and you just
want them to make one transmission to make things operate quicker. For
any of these reasons you might want to change to Transmission Attempts on
one or more devices. This can easily be done using UPStart.
Example - Changing To One Transmission Attempt
For our example, we have found that everything is communicating great.
We would like to set all of our 6-Button Controller for a single transmission
attempt so that they respond to events a little quicker. To configure the
Transmission Attempts we again use the Edit Device Dialog of our 6-
Button Controller. This dialog has a special Transmit Components tab that
is used for configuring transmission options such as the Transmission
Attempts.
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