Hello. I have owned and been mostly happy, for my limited automation needs, with my old CM-11A serial controller and Active Home 1.42 software. I only have a couple fast macros and I run the unit stand-alone.
I note that there is now a USB CM-15A and Active Home Pro software. So I wonder about if it improves/fixes the following known issues with the old stuff:
(a) New Year's - the old stuff seems to get confused at the turn of the New Year. I generally have to re-program the unit every year at that time to keep things straight. Not sure why this is.
(b) Daylight savings - the old unit adapts to daylight savings in terms of correcting by an hour, when macros run if they are driven by dawn/dusk (which two of mine are). But it seems that items tied directly to a fixed clock time (say 8am or 11pm) get confused when daylight savings changes. I am not sure I fully understand the pattern but it seems like the internal clock keeps running at standard or daylight time (whatever was correct when it was last set from the computer) and so when the time change occurs, macros supposed to run at 11pm run instead later or earlier.
Other than these two items, I am happy enough with my old gear. But the prices on the newer stuff have dropped to a level where I would consider changing if the above two issues are resolved. Anyone know if they have?
Thanks for your input.