Intermittent operation of 3 appliance modules AM486

The CM-11 sends out random codes if you leave it unplugged. It has been a long time for me since using a CM11 (sofwtare was too dumb) so I forget the exact details but I think you cannot leave the serial port unplugged for some reason or it goes nuts.

The exact detail is that the CM11A needs to have the serial cable unplugged at the CM11A. If the cable is left in the CM11A but unplugged from the PC (hanging in the wind, so to speak) then the CM11A will begin to issue strange commands.

The CM11A is disconnected from my PC and plugged into an outlet in a different room. There is no "hanging cable" issue.

Rich

Rich, Sounds like a noise problem to me. As posted here a few months ago, my wife's cellphone charger caused several units to stop working. Plugging it into a Plug-In Noise filter did the trick. Think about what new items you may have plugged in - particularly lightweight electronic power supplies/chargers. The coupler you installed is useful in bridging signals but in a home of 2500+sf you really should have a signal amplifier or repeater. The Leviton Decora Control Manual (Leviton line of X10 products) makes the same recommendation. There are several repeaters/amplifiers available but the best - by FAR - are the ones from Jeff Volpe at

His products raise the signal level higher than any others and at no premium in price. It's all about signal relative to the noise. You can shout louder or turn down the noise or a combination of both. With thte CM11A Plugged into an XTB or XTB-II you'll have a strong signal throughout the house. You still need to pick off any culprits like noisey chargers or other wall warts with filters but you'll need far less or maybe even none of them.

Of course if you want to start fresh, look into Insteon, UPB or Z-Wave.

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I think I have the solution, or at least part of it.

I noticed that all the modules switch properly when we are not at home. I deduced that the problem may be an appliance that is turned on and creating noise on the line.

I tracked the issue to four CF lamps. One was a suspect last year when it was in a different location in the house. The other three were small CF floods that I installed in recessed sockets on a porch. I'm not sure exactly when those were installed so they may not have been present last year during the Christmas season.

The problems with these four lamps were not constant. IOW, if any one of the lamps were on, some modules would not turn on, or if on, they wouldn't turn off. Having all of the CF's on (which is typical for us at this time of year) sometimes many modules would not switch on and a few would not turn off.

I replaced the three small floods with conventional incandescent and the other CF with a different brand CF. All modules seem to be working now.

The next question:

Are some brands of CF noisier than others? The offending CF's that I have found are N'Vision and Phillips. The Commercial Electric CF that I used to be able to get at HD seem to work fine.

The other oddity that I've noticed is when there are noisy CF's in the house, modules that will not respond to an addressed OFF command will sometimes respond to an ALL UNITS OFF.

Also, modules that are physically close to the noisy CF's are not the units that fail to respond. That doesn't make sense to me.

Rich

An addressed command requires both an address command and a function command. If either doesn't get through, the module will not respond. The All Units Off is just a single function command so it has a better chance of getting through.

Physically close may not mean electrically close.

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