Wayne-Dalton Z-Wave WDUSB-10 - Manual (Page 35)

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Use the following procedure
to set the poll rate in
ThinkEssentials
®
by the number
of seconds.
You can temporarily establish
a specific poll rate in
Thinkessentials
®
using seconds
as the unit. one second is the
minimum poll rate. Please be
aware that polling too frequently
in a Z-Wave
®
network can cause
negative performance behavior
for the network by not allowing
enough time for each module
to report back to the controller.
Before you begin, you must exit
Thinkessentials
®
. See page
37 for instructions on “exiting
Thinkessentials
®
.”
1. Please see your computer
operating System documentation
for information on how to start
the command line option. In the
Windows XP example shown, the
command line option is started
by clicking on START and then
clicking on RUN. This will open a
RUN dialog box.
2. In the RUN dialog box type in
CMD and click on ok to open the
Command line window.
3. Navigate to the drive and
directory where Thinkessentials
®
is located.
4. Type the program name,
“Thinkessentials” followed by
the poll command as noted in the
following example:
Thinkessentials /poll=500
Note in the example 500 is the
maximum number of seconds
between polling requests.
5. Press the eNTeR key and
Thinkessentials
®
will start.
Command Line Option:
Poll
Adv
anced Operations
Type in the /poll command line
option with your desired value.
Change to drive and directory where
Thinkessentials
®
is located.
Initiate command line function.