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Updating combine_stations assignment when new stations are added - paul - 2021 Oct 14 Hi Dan, The combine_stations plugin uses the final set of 8 stations as virtual (combo) stations. A complication arises when this plugin is used in conjunction with the mqtt_slave plugin. The latter plugin requires adding n (=1,2,...) extension boards depending on how many equivalent boards the slave controller has. For example, n=3 if slave has 16 physical channels and 8 virtual channels. This number n is added to the master controller's "options/station handling/station extensions" setting. To be concrete, in my setup, my master controller has 16 physical stations and 8 virtual stations. V17-24 are for setting up virtual stations in the master controller. If the slave_controller is introduced, the master controller has reassigned the virtual stations to V41-48. So a user has to re-program the virtual channels every time a new slave controller is added. Is it possible to automatically copy over the virtual stations assignment so that the content of V41 is copied from V17? V17 >> V41 V18 >> V42 ... And to remove the original virtual assignments since they are no longer effective? V17 --> S17 V18 --> S18 ... And also to repeat the process every time a new stations are added? |