So here I am again with some new interesting story about X10 I am unable to explain, and hoping the collective wisdom of this forum may help me out...
I had posted some time back on X10 commands being very slow, and seeing all sorts of X10 commands received in my HS log that were never issued and referred to device housecodes I wasn't using... all that is gone, and now I have this instead.
In a nutshell, I get lights (not all lights, just those upstairs, on housecode "B") come on randomly, especially at night, almost every night. Nothing shows up in the HS log.
The only two recent changes to my setup have been switching to a single phase installation (retaining one FD10 filter where the electrical supply enters the house) and replacing my CM11 with a new XTB-232.
This is very annoying, wakes you up in the middle of the night with the bedroom light on full thinking you missed the alarm clock and it's midday when it's actually 3a.m. (not funny, even though you may be laughing right now... ), and has a definite impact on the electricity bill...
I initially thought a device may be malfunctioning, but I see it is happening to all the lights upstairs (they are all LD11 units)... and the only device capable of issuing X10 commands I have is the XTB-232... other than gremlins, I am at a loss.
Questions:
- can X10 commands be received that turn the lights on but not be recorded by HS as "X10 received" in the log?
- could a malfunctioning X10 device be sending out noise/junk that randomly equates to a device address and a "ON" instruction (sounds like a long shot to me)?
As a note, there is no one in a radius of many miles using X10, this is a rural area and the average age is like 75+, so it can't be spurious X10 coming from somewhere else... only thing is the electrical supply is not all that "clean", it tends to spike and drop quite a bit, but is generally within tolerable limits.
I'd appreciate any input before I try to start fiddling with house codes to see if it makes a difference... (not nice, lots of scripts and MainLobby to update if I do that)
Thanks!!
Sandro
I had posted some time back on X10 commands being very slow, and seeing all sorts of X10 commands received in my HS log that were never issued and referred to device housecodes I wasn't using... all that is gone, and now I have this instead.
In a nutshell, I get lights (not all lights, just those upstairs, on housecode "B") come on randomly, especially at night, almost every night. Nothing shows up in the HS log.
The only two recent changes to my setup have been switching to a single phase installation (retaining one FD10 filter where the electrical supply enters the house) and replacing my CM11 with a new XTB-232.
This is very annoying, wakes you up in the middle of the night with the bedroom light on full thinking you missed the alarm clock and it's midday when it's actually 3a.m. (not funny, even though you may be laughing right now... ), and has a definite impact on the electricity bill...
I initially thought a device may be malfunctioning, but I see it is happening to all the lights upstairs (they are all LD11 units)... and the only device capable of issuing X10 commands I have is the XTB-232... other than gremlins, I am at a loss.
Questions:
- can X10 commands be received that turn the lights on but not be recorded by HS as "X10 received" in the log?
- could a malfunctioning X10 device be sending out noise/junk that randomly equates to a device address and a "ON" instruction (sounds like a long shot to me)?
As a note, there is no one in a radius of many miles using X10, this is a rural area and the average age is like 75+, so it can't be spurious X10 coming from somewhere else... only thing is the electrical supply is not all that "clean", it tends to spike and drop quite a bit, but is generally within tolerable limits.
I'd appreciate any input before I try to start fiddling with house codes to see if it makes a difference... (not nice, lots of scripts and MainLobby to update if I do that)
Thanks!!
Sandro
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