programming with CM15A & motion sensors

Aug 26, 2005 6 Replies
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Hi,



I've got an ActiveHome CM15A USB interface device - does anyone know if it can be programmed with anything besides the ActiveHome Pro SDK? More specifically, I'm trying to write some software that can either receive signals from a wireless motion sensor, or query the sensor for its current state. Is that possible?



ActiveHome provides a very simple SDK, just one executable with a few functions, and it works for sending signals. It's supposed to be able to query devices but I have not gotten querying to work at all.



I have access to Windows & Mac OS X machines.



thanks,



-paul


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AFAIK there is no alternative software for the CM15A although a few people have partially reverse engineered the protocol and are writing Linux software for it. See Neil Cherry's Linux HA site.

However, all X-10 moti>Hi,

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Hi Paul,

As Dave said, the sensors are xmit only. But what if you would let the sensor signal start a CM15A macro? Then the event would be captured.

Regards, Joerg

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The event is captured when the motion occurs. What does a macro add?

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Hello Dave,

It would be just a kludge. If I understood Paul correctly he was looking for a chance to see after the fact whether a motion sensor has detected. IOW when he hasn't captured that event on his PC or elsewhere.

So you could trigger a macro that repetitively "plays" a code for a while. That way you could catch that code and assume a motion detect must have occurred within the last x minutes.

Regards, Joerg

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Hello Dave,

That would be the easiest option, of course. But Paul asked whether he could check the status in hindsight. I don't know why, maybe he doesn't run the PC all the time.

Regards, Joerg

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