zz (defunct) Tips for the configuration.yaml file

Max Zones

It can be the case that a bit is flipped in a payload and a zone_idx is created that will cause a 'phantom' zone to appear in the system. This is a payload error, and so the entire packet is also suspect & should be rejected.

This parameter should be set to one more that your highest zone_idx.

WARNING: a system may have only 3 zones, but they could be (say) 00, 01, and 05. In this case, max_zones should be set to 6 (0-5), not 3, and not 5.

Note that zone_idx are zero-indexed, and usually represented as a hex string where 0A is 10 (decimal). The maximum number of zones supported by ramses is 12 (0B), and increasing this parameter beyond that will not improve things for you.

Later, this parameter may be changed to max_zone_idx.