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🖥️ActiveHome Pro => ActiveHome Pro General => Help & Troubleshooting => Topic started by: seansco on July 09, 2010, 09:34:54 AM
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I have 2 switches in my bathroom. A Pro XPD3-IW for the lights and a WS13A for the vent. I have Active Home Pro and a CM15A.
Here is what I want to happen. When I turn the light or the vent on via the hardware wall switch (just pressing the switch on the wall) I want AHP to know that it happened so that I can fire a macro.
When these switches are pressed to they 'report' that they have been pressed?
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I have 2 switches in my bathroom. A Pro XPD3-IW for the lights and a WS13A for the vent. I have Active Home Pro and a CM15A.
Here is what I want to happen. When I turn the light or the vent on via the hardware wall switch (just pressing the switch on the wall) I want AHP to know that it happened so that I can fire a macro.
When these switches are pressed to they 'report' that they have been pressed?
These are both only "1-way" switches, i.e., they respond to X10 powerline signals but have no transmitting capability and don't send out a signal when the button is pressed.
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Leviton, SmartHome, and perhaps others, make switches that do transmit their status, but they are MUCH more expensive than the X10 switches.
Jeff
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I have a very similar setup in my bathroom. WS12A for the lights and XPS3-IW for the fan. I also have a MS14A motion sensor. When someone enters the bathroom, the MS14A sends the signal to the CM15A and both the lights and fan come on via a macro. The MS14A is set to initiate the off-macro after 4 minutes if it no longer detects motion.
The fan can be turned off locally without affecting macro operation and it does not come on between 10 PM and 6 AM unless its turned on locally.
Mel