Suggestions for T3000 after site commissioning

jason.kania · October 22, 2023, 6:57pm

We have put in 3 thermostats in customer sites at this point and have the suggestions outlined in the following ticket to improve its ability to support commissioning via the T3000 software:

github.com/temcocontrols/T3000_Building_Automation_System

Feature requests based on Commissioning with the T3000 software

opened 10:49PM - 15 Oct 23 UTC

lonerzzz

After having used the T3000 software to commission a thermostat on site in the l…ast few days, we would like to suggest the following enhancements to make the software more amenable to use in such situations. What we found is that we were taking longer than needed because we could not trust the information presented at a point in time because we did not know if it was up to date. We know we had WiFi in the building that wasn't great but could do nothing to improve it so it is important that the T3000 software can better handle these situations. 1) each window should only request updates for the data currently visible in the window - for example, only 10 inputs are needed for a thermostat, but all registers are pulled which is inefficient and slows all the updates. Similarly, there are many variables but a person is only looking at a page at a time so only grab those values to improve refresh time. 2) there should be a time shown in the T3000 software and on each window (Inputs, Outputs, Variables, PIDS, etc), the last refresh time should be shown so that when calibrating an input for example, you can know that changes have been applied 3) there should be a refresh button in each window header to prompt refresh of only that window when the data in one window is more important at the moment for the person interacting with the system. 4) the window interactivity should not be compromised by a slow connection, 5) resizing the window and scrolling the window contents should should not cause a jump or hang based on data updates. It seems as if the double buffering of the window contents is not providing smooth interactivity or the window updates are in the same thread of execution as the network access code

maurice · October 25, 2023, 8:41pm

Thanks very much for the feedback from the site. I am working with Fandu to make some changes based on your feedback, specifically the refresh button for multiple windows and the timer or indicator of some sort as to when the next auto refresh will happen. More news soon.

jason.kania · October 26, 2023, 7:34pm

Looking forward to trying it out.

jason.kania · December 5, 2023, 10:16pm

Hi Maurice,

Any update on this?

Thanks,

Jason

jason.kania · December 24, 2023, 7:21pm

Hi Maurice,

Any update on this?

Thanks,

Jason

maurice · December 24, 2023, 9:13pm

There’s a refresh button now. Please check the rev notes regarding some but not all of the suggestions. Multiple window refresh is on the todo list still if I remember right.

Maurice