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RE: [ECS] PLC Interface overflow? A.J. Griglak Sat, 1 Jul 2000 08:49:55 -0400

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I have four X-10 motion detectors in my house, and have no such problems.  I
have, however, disabled the dusk/dawn setting, which is useless in my
opinion.  For one thing, they eat up another precious house code  ;-)  I
don't have problems with "lots of x-10 commands," so maybe the extra
commands are from the dusk/dawn thing.

Anyway, do the mod yourself.  At first glance it looks scary, but once I did
one, I did them all withour referring back to the directions.

http://www3.edgenet.net/lingling/x10-mod1.html#defeat

or

http://www.geocities.com/ido_bartana/modifying_hawkey_sensor.htm#Disabling%2
0dusk/dawn%20sensor

Hope that helps,

-=A.J.

-----Original Message-----
From: J Gary Mull [mailto:jgary@mindspring.com]
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 9:37 PM
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
Subject: Re: [ECS] PLC Interface overflow?


Are you using an X10 motion sensor.  X10 motion detectors send out lots of
X10 commands so I use hard wired motion sensors.

At 05:06 PM 6/30/00 -0700, you wrote:
>It just occurred to me that I have a motion detector in one of the hallways
>where a light is turned on by the bed time event.  It's probably the motion
>detector sending out the "daylight" command.  If that's it, there's not
>much I can do about it.  I use the "daylight" signal to determine if the
>hallway light should be turned on when motion is detected, so I can't
>disable the light sensor.  As long as ECS retries whatever didn't go
>through the first time I guess it should be okay.
>
>  -- Jay
>
>At 18:40 06/30/00 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>This error means that a command has been issued to
>>the CM11A (by ECS) which has not been acknowledged
>>after 5 seconds (i.e. it is "busy" doing "something").
>>What that is I don't know (perhaps ANOTHER transmitter
>>sending a burst of continuous commands ?).
>
>
jgary@atl.mindspring.com   Gary at Home
jgmull@us.ibm.com          Gary at Work

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