Blade (or anyone else that has a good answer),
What is the "proper" / best way to trigger an event based on the reception of a standard wireless X10 signal being received by the W800?
Here is my thought (I have not tried it yet since I just setup HS3 from scratch rather than migrate my setup from HS2.. So now I wanted to do it clean and "right").
1) I have a W800 and many X10 wireless Palm Pads and X10 (non-security) motion sensors (Only sends codes A1 - P16)
2) I create some kind of Status only device in HS3 for each and every Wireless X10 [A1-P16] (256 Devices Total - Some are Motion Sensor, Some Are Light Sensor, Some Are Palm Pad Button)
3) I Use the shadow function of the BLRF plugin to map each and every one of the 256 possible wireless X10 (A1 - P16) to the 256 devices I created in #2 above.
4) Now I can see the status of each of the X10 Wireless devices (Motion Sensor, Light Sensor, Palm Pad Button) and associate an HS3 event with each of those devices.
- Will this approach work?
- Is there a better way to accomplish this?
- Will Dim / Brighten work?
- Can the event re-trigger when, for example, the Palm Pad A1 is ON and I were to hit ON again? What if I hit ON a third time, will the event re-trigger yet again even though the shadowed device is already in an ON state (I want this behavior... I want an event trigger for every X10 A1-->P16 that is received by BLRF.
Thanks for your help in setting up my reincarnation of HomeSeer using HS3.
Jean-Marie
What is the "proper" / best way to trigger an event based on the reception of a standard wireless X10 signal being received by the W800?
Here is my thought (I have not tried it yet since I just setup HS3 from scratch rather than migrate my setup from HS2.. So now I wanted to do it clean and "right").
1) I have a W800 and many X10 wireless Palm Pads and X10 (non-security) motion sensors (Only sends codes A1 - P16)
2) I create some kind of Status only device in HS3 for each and every Wireless X10 [A1-P16] (256 Devices Total - Some are Motion Sensor, Some Are Light Sensor, Some Are Palm Pad Button)
3) I Use the shadow function of the BLRF plugin to map each and every one of the 256 possible wireless X10 (A1 - P16) to the 256 devices I created in #2 above.
4) Now I can see the status of each of the X10 Wireless devices (Motion Sensor, Light Sensor, Palm Pad Button) and associate an HS3 event with each of those devices.
- Will this approach work?
- Is there a better way to accomplish this?
- Will Dim / Brighten work?
- Can the event re-trigger when, for example, the Palm Pad A1 is ON and I were to hit ON again? What if I hit ON a third time, will the event re-trigger yet again even though the shadowed device is already in an ON state (I want this behavior... I want an event trigger for every X10 A1-->P16 that is received by BLRF.
Thanks for your help in setting up my reincarnation of HomeSeer using HS3.
Jean-Marie
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