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Posted by Chuck on January 1, 2008, 12:35 pm
Please log in for more thread options I recently Purchased some items from X10, as I went to use them I ran into various shortcommings. 1- When using the ActiveHome Professional Kit Part# CM15A-SP-ISSO and the software that was made available on their web ( they forgot to send it to me), it seemed easy to program however, the s/w continued to hang my Media Center Edition SP2 OS. 2- When trying to use the Socket Rocket Smart Screw in Lamp Module, they failed to list on the instructions you needed to program this seperately prior to trying to use the item from #1 above. Later this was sucessfully programmed with a code to activate the device. Ok, so now I have a s/w package and device to remotely control the Rocket Sockets and the ability to program the Rocket Sockets - time to use the sensors. 3- I purchased multiple ActiveEye Motion sensors. They are wireless and simply take 2 AAA batteries. I placed 1 then 2 then 3 of them on my back porch with different zones or angles between them and tested their range before the motion would set them off. Great the seemed to work, I had them simply activate a lamp with an X10 Power House Transceiver Module (TM751). This allowed me to test the sensor with a visual feedback of the lamp on/off. All seemed well, Again,I placed it on the rear porch with the other two sensors - each with their own area of coverage. Then over the next few days I experienced the following problem. Wind would set off the motion sensor. More over, two sensors would be activated and the lamp would continue to stay on ( it seemed as if the Transceiver got confused), I also have an X10 Manual Remote Control CR12A and I would have to use this to turn off the lamp. After a day or so of this problem, I defaulted to only using 1 sensor on the rear porch. 4- Final Straw, after approximately 2 weeks of using the single sensor with the lamp and fewer problems with the lamp being left in the on state - I noticed I would walk by the motion sensor and it would not activate the lamp. I would have to place my hand within a few inches to activate the sensor. I concluded the cause for this was the batteries. Note I live in Tucson - so it should not be the cold weather or else these would have an extremely limited area of utility in the US. And if the battery life is less than 2 weeks - I have no use for the entire set of items. Comments welcome. Chuck | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by John J. Bengii on January 1, 2008, 1:27 pm
Please log in for more thread options more. I have about 15 of these units. Some are really flakey and some are fairly consistent. The nasty part of the whole thing is the wireless plug-in receievers. They broadcast "all lights on" code every month or so. I have four of these units so I know it isn't just one flakey unit. I come home with all the lights on from time to time under each house code in usage. On a few occasions I have founbd the system locks up also. This is due to the wireless receievers flooding the powerlines with noise. Unplugging them and back in again resets the units and away they go just fine for another few months. I thought I could economize on electrcial energy usage but have found with so many unit left on all night from time to time, I doubt the economy is happenning. I have many macros to turn everything off about 3 times per day as the system cannot be trusted. The outside motion detectors PR-511 frequently get turned on and will not turn off without sending an X10 code from another unit. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Dave Houston on January 3, 2008, 8:01 am
Please log in for more thread options That sounds very much like the "endless dim syndrome" I mentioned earlier.
This seems to be mostly a function of the household wiring. Some have resolved it by changing the location of the transceiver or changing the orientation of the antenna. Some have never found a cure. I can induce it at will (by aligning the antenna with a live extension cord) in any of the X-10 made transceivers. I have been unable to induce it in the Leviton HCPRF All Housecode Transceiver. >On a few occasions I have founbd the system locks up also. This is due
>to the wireless receievers flooding the powerlines with noise. >Unplugging them and back in again resets the units and away they go >just fine for another few months. http://davehouston.net http://davehouston.org http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/roZetta/ roZetta-subscribe@yahoogroups.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by John J. Bengii on January 3, 2008, 11:11 am
Please log in for more thread options These units hang up and will not stop transmitting until unplugged
completely. There are no cords in proximity to the vertical antennae (save the 14/2 in the wall). Does this sound like the same problem? Will it stop by just reorienting the antenna or does it take powering down? I got rid of the offending units (or was it two now?) and it hasn't done it for a few years now. > That sounds very much like the "endless dim syndrome" I mentioned
> earlier. > This seems to be mostly a function of the household wiring. Some > have > resolved it by changing the location of the transceiver or changing > the > orientation of the antenna. Some have never found a cure. > > I can induce it at will (by aligning the antenna with a live > extension cord) > in any of the X-10 made transceivers. I have been unable to induce > it in the > Leviton HCPRF All Housecode Transceiver. > > >>On a few occasions I have founbd the system locks up also. This is
>>due >>to the wireless receievers flooding the powerlines with noise. >>Unplugging them and back in again resets the units and away they go >>just fine for another few months. >
> > http://davehouston.net http://davehouston.org > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/roZetta/ > roZetta-subscribe@yahoogroups.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by John J. Bengii on January 24, 2008, 1:06 pm
Please log in for more thread options to be cut off, or it would lose its
character as member! For every member must be quite willing to perish for the body, for which alone the whole is. 477. It is false that we are worthy of the love of others; it is unfair that we should desire it. If we were born reasonable and impartial, knowing ourselves and others, we should not give this bias to our will. However, we are born with it; therefore born unjust, for all tends to self. This is contrary to all order. We must consider the general good; and the propensity to self is the beginning of all disorder, in war, in politics, in economy, and in the particular body of man. The will is therefore depraved. If the members of natural and civil communities tend towards the weal of the body, the communities themselves ought to look to another more general body of which they are members. We ought, therefore, to look to the whole. We are, therefore, born unjust and depraved. 478. When we want to think of God, is there nothing which turns us away, and tempts us to think of something else? All this is bad, and is born in us. 479. If | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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> I recently Purchased some items from X10, as I went to use them I
> ran into
> various shortcommings.
> 1- When using the ActiveHome Professional Kit Part# CM15A-SP-ISSO
> and the
> software that was made available on their web ( they forgot to send
> it to me),
> it seemed easy to program however, the s/w continued to hang my
> Media Center
> Edition SP2 OS.
> 2- When trying to use the Socket Rocket Smart Screw in Lamp Module,
> they
> failed to list on the instructions you needed to program this
> seperately prior
> to trying to use the item from #1 above.
> Later this was sucessfully programmed with a code to activate the
> device.
>
> Ok, so now I have a s/w package and device to remotely control the
> Rocket
> Sockets and the ability to program the Rocket Sockets - time to use
> the
> sensors.
>
> 3- I purchased multiple ActiveEye Motion sensors. They are wireless
> and simply
> take 2 AAA batteries.
> I placed 1 then 2 then 3 of them on my back porch with different
> zones or
> angles between them and tested their range before the motion would
> set them
> off. Great the seemed to work, I had them simply activate a lamp
> with an X10
> Power House Transceiver Module (TM751). This allowed me to test the
> sensor
> with a visual feedback of the lamp on/off. All seemed well, Again,I
> placed it
> on the rear porch with the other two sensors - each with their own
> area of
> coverage. Then over the next few days I experienced the following
> problem.
> Wind would set off the motion sensor. More over, two sensors would
> be
> activated and the lamp would continue to stay on ( it seemed as if
> the
> Transceiver got confused), I also have an X10 Manual Remote Control
> CR12A and
> I would have to use this to turn off the lamp. After a day or so of
> this
> problem, I defaulted to only using 1 sensor on the rear porch.
>
> 4- Final Straw, after approximately 2 weeks of using the single
> sensor with
> the lamp and fewer problems with the lamp being left in the on
> state - I
> noticed I would walk by the motion sensor and it would not activate
> the lamp.
> I would have to place my hand within a few inches to activate the
> sensor. I
> concluded the cause for this was the batteries. Note I live in
> Tucson - so it
> should not be the cold weather or else these would have an extremely
> limited
> area of utility in the US. And if the battery life is less than 2
> weeks - I
> have no use for the entire set of items.
>
> Comments welcome.
> Chuck
>