The Query user menu is managed in this screen.
You create a type of "monitoring structure" under this heading. Query means more or less the same as "request".
You can therefore monitor certain states within the areas controlled by the HomeServer and show summaries of these or change them in the HTML or WAP view.
All items of the
menu are available for constructing this monitoring structure.
There is additionally a special query page.
The states ("conditions") are gathered together in a hierarchical menu.
This summary is always made at the next highest level, the query page.
The menu tree can be constructed depending on the monitoring conditions.
"Opened windows" is an example of a state.
If, for instance, you want to see if one of many windows is opened at the top menu level.
If one of the conditions is met (e.g. "a window" is opened) then the menu button "Query/Requests" changes its icon in the navigation bar. You can then simply scroll through the menu to find the "open" window or to close it. Every appropriate branch of the menu has a corresponding icon when the condition is met.
Example
Opened window:
You want to request how many windows are open on each level of a house that is controlled by the HomeServer.
If you now create a query page called "Window monitoring" under "Query", you can then assign sub-folders to this query page such as "cellar", "ground floor", "upper floor" etc. You can then assign, for instance, the menu items with the windows monitored on the respective floor, to these sub-folders .
If you have also stored the appropriate data for the single areas within the structure, you can then show information in the HTML or WAP view such as, "Ground floor: 4 windows are open!", if some of the monitored windows are open. You can proceed in exactly the same way with other objects to be monitored such as, e.g. lighting, outside doors, switched on power units, etc.
The query menu is comprised of two very different items:
- Query page
- As well as the remaining menu items such as:
- Switching line, which triggers commands or only displays values
- Special screens (e.g. timer, calendar, camera, value entry, diagram, etc.).)
Query elements can
not be combined randomly. Additional query pages or just menu items can be assigned to a query page.
However, a combination of query pages and menu items is not possible!