Appendix A. Useful Features; Appendix A.1. Extending The Event Table; Appendix A.1.1. Index Value Of 'Trouble' Is Updated To A New Value Of 100; Appendix A.1.2. New Entry Is Added - FieldServer Gamewell FCI E3 Series Driver Manual

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Appendix A. Useful Features

Appendix A.1. Extending the Event Table

New event causes may be added to the Event Table (Appendix C.1) and the index value or category of existing
event causes modified by adding a section to the configuration CSV file. The examples below illustrate this:
Appendix A.1.1. Index value of 'Trouble' is updated to a new value of 100
Driver_Table
Event_Type_Description
TROUBLE
Appendix A.1.2. New Entr y is added
Since it has been added as category=3, only Map Descriptors with 'Event Type' set to "Alarm" or "Any" will capture
messages with this event description
Driver_Table
Event_Type_Description
DESTROYED
For categories use the following values
'Other' = 1, 'Fault' = 2, 'Alarm' = 3, 'Trouble' = 4

Appendix A.2. Panel Synchronization

Manual synchronization is required. When the "Reset" button on the panel is pressed a message is transmitted to
the FieldServer, which clears the data in the FieldServer. After a reset the panel sends messages to report all
abnormal states. When all these messages have been processed the FieldServer and panel will be synchronized.
This process can be repeated at any time.
When a panel sends a reset message the driver processes every single Map Descriptor, looking at the 'Clear on
Reset' parameter (See section 5.3.2). If the parameter is set to yes, then the driver sets all the Data Array
elements referenced by the Map Descriptor to zero by looking up the Data Array Name, the Data Array offset and
the length. The driver also clears the relevant sections of a Data Array specified with the DA_Bit_Name parameter.
The process can take some time. For this reason, it is suggested that you take care not to set the Map Descriptor
length to a value larger than necessary.
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, Event_Type_Index_Value
, 100
, Event_Type_Index_Value
, 51
, Event_Type_Category , Protocol
, 4 , FCI_E3
, Event_Type_Category , Protocol
, 3 , FCI_E3
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