[dss-developer] groups over zones, function id?

[Dominik Wieser]

hello,

knowbody having an answer yet???

kind regards

Dominik wieser

2010/2/28 Dominik Wieser <wieserdominik at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
> I have some questions and would be glad if anybody could answer them.
>
> - Is there a some kind of group that can include devices of different
> zones. As far as I understand groups can only include devices of the
> same zone and of the same standard or user group.
> I would think groups that can hold devices of different zones also
> could be very useful. So you could make a group containing all
> jalousies of the southside of the house for example. Is there such a
> possiblity? I thought about doing this with the property system. But
> the variables i created are always gone, as soon as the server gets
> restarted. How can I save the properties.
>
> On the wiki i found the following sentence:
> Each Device has (beside some other Information) a function-ID, which
> defines what behavior is called thought the dSM, when a event has been
> issued by that device (a light device has function-id 0x1***, so when
> a button-press-event comes from that device, the dSM know, that a
> scenecall for light must be issued)
> What is exactly is the function id? How can I get this id over the
> api? And how can I know which device it is, with the help of the
> function id? is there a kind of table?
> I also don't really understand the concept of the user groups.
>
> Could anybody explain please?
>
> Thanks a lot and have a nice evening
>
> Dominik Wieser
>