dhoward
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Tony,
I played around and the best I can get is about 16 transitions in 10.5 seconds. Not great, but about the best that can be done.
The main thing is to always use PLC groups. Group commands are not acknowledged so they can be sent faster. The other thing to do is to disable background polling while running the Halloween effects. Next, make sure to disable any triggers that fire on Insteon Device Chg (that are on the Halloween lights) and any Insteon Group Out on the groups that you're using. If you can structure your groups where certain lights go to 0% while others are coming on and use varying ramprates, it will appear that you're exerting more control than you actually are.
The last thing is a backdoor command to squeeze that last little bit out. Below is a sample command that turns my PLC group 3 on and then off. It first disables the trigger that will fire on this group transition and then disables background polling.
ph_disabletrigger("INSTEON_CHG") + ph_insteonctrl("INSTEON","pollinterval",0) + ph_ctlrcmd1("INSTEON",5031,17,0,"00.00.03","C5",0) + ph_delay(100) + ph_ctlrcmd1("INSTEON",5031,19,0,"00.00.03","C5",0) + ph_insteonctrl("INSTEON","pollinterval",10) + ph_enabletrigger("INSTEON_CHG")
The backdoor command is ph_ctlrcmd1. Check the help file for info. The portions that need explaining are the third parameter which is the Insteon command to send and the fifth parameter which is the PLC group. Also, note the delay command. If you don't have this delay, the commands will overrun the SDM buffer and will actually slow down and nearly stop. This command will also bypass group cleanups, so a little extra speed will be picked up there.
Wish there was some way to go faster but this is about the best I can do.
HTH,
Dave.
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