krkeegan/misterhouse — pull request #6 by krkeegan (2013-02-16 05:30:54+00:00)
Title: Fix Problems with All_Link Commands

What this does:
- Direct Cleanups from Devices to a PLM_Scene are essentially ignored, there really is nothing to process with them.
- An All_Link_Failure report (which occurs when an individual device doesn't respond) now causes MH to push a direct message for that device to the front of the queue. MH will then retry as normal to appropriately set this device.
- MH should wait until the All_Linking process is complete before trying to send another message. (If we try to send a message before the linking is done, we will cause the All_Link process to fail). The All_Link process can take a while (6 seconds for 20 devices in my case). So in order to prevent a lockup waiting for a confirmation that never arrives, MH initially sets the timeout at 3 seconds and then resets the timeout each time an All_Link Direct cleanup ACK is received or if an All_Link_Failure is received.
- MH waits until the ALL_Link Status Report (success or failure) to clear the message.

Of Note:
- All_Link_Failure is only 6 bytes, not 7 as defined in the documentation. I fixed the PLM parsing and Michael's message decoder.
- All_Link_Status always reports success if it was allowed to run completely, even if individual devices fail to respond. Luckily those individual reports are caught by All_Link_Failure. The only way to get an All_Link_Status failure is to send a message from the computer (not a device) to the PLM before the process is complete. If that happens, and it really shouldn't unless the timeout is too short, MH will retry the PLM_Scene again.