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Re: [ECS] X-10 Poling of device status Paul Fitch Sat, 17 Jun 2000 23:38:13 -0400

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Oh yeh, all the items I want to keep an eye on are in my 'Pauls House' group.
An example:

I have an Item called Hall Fan

Now If I turn on the Fan using a Palm Pad, WHILE ECS is NOT running, and then
start ECS, it doesn't show the true state of the fan as ON.

Martin Terry wrote:

> ECS sees the x-10 codes and should update the states as well. Do you have
> one on a group screen to monitor? There is no way to easily see the current
> state of an item in ECS without displaying an item in a group screen.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Fitch [mailto:pfitchjr@bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 8:29 PM
> To: ECS Mailing List
> Subject: [ECS] X-10 Poling of device status
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> Ok, now when I first started hooking up X-10 stuff with Active Home I
> could change the state of the lights using palm pads and the on/off
> switchs on the universal modules.  Active Home knew when I did that and
> updated the graphics on the screen.
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> Now when I do something like that while running ECS, it doesn't seem to
> know that items are on or off.  Is there some way to poll the status of
> my X-10 modules?  I'm using a CM-11a as my interface.

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