Scenario
User needs to activate a relay when the door is held open, but they do not have an I/O board.
Solution
Create an One Shot Advance I/O event to trigger the relay output desired. See below step by step how to do it.
Create a “Criteria” specifying the event we want to use to activate the relay output
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Go to “Configuration” and then “Criteria”
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Click the “green plus” to create a new Criteria
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Under description assign a name
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In this example, the user only wants one door to trigger one relay, Click “Selected Devices Only”, select the desired door and add it to the “Selected Devices” column
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Click the “Events” tab
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The user only wants the relay triggered by one specific event: “Door held open”. Click “Selected Events Only”. Add the desired event to the “List of Selected Events” column
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If this action is desired to happen only in one specific schedule, click the “Time” tab and choose the desired schedule.
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Click Save
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Create an Advanced IO to assign the Criteria for activating the relay output
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Go to “Configuration”, and click “Advanced IO”
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Click the “green plus” to create a new one
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Under description assign a name for the new Advanced I/O
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The function needed is “One Shot”
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Select the output duration desired
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The “Input Control” is the criteria previously created. Click the edit button, select “Criteria” and the name assigned to the Criteria
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The “Output Link” is the relay output we want to activate. Click the edit button and select the relay output desired.
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Click the save button
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