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here since last night. Smartenit-P2 is not connecting.
Smartenit claim to have so many good reliable home automation products. I hope they are not like P2.This is the third time that in about a month that it is down, I am seriously thinking of switching to some more reliable system.

Same thing here. Will call 949.429.3303 on Monday morning and I emailed sales@smartenit.com.  Please report it as well so they see it.

Saturday 10:25PM Eastern....wondering if the Smartenit servers are down again.

Lost Alexa X-10 interface, hardware checks out but cannot re enable the skill due to connection to Smartenit

Sorry to hear about the health issues.  You can save the trips up the ladder by installing the choke at the WS469 switch instead of the fixture. The Blue wire on the WS469 goes to the fixture so remove the wire nut and connect one lead from the choke to the Blue wire and the the other lead to the wire going to the fixture. Done!  That's the way I did it with a pool light.

Finally.

No not yet, but closer.

My orders finally got through customs. Got down the basement and wired them in. Suddenly my entrance light behaves oddly. A led flourescent Light that has worked without issue for years suddenly works in tandem with a circulation fan. OK, reset the buttons in homegenie. Problem solved. Now gotta struggle up a ladder and install the chokes in the kitchen lights. Sorry it is taking so long to do these installs but between the MS and the stroke I need to pick my days carefully. Thank you all for your patience.

Dave

Indeed but speaking personally I’m here for the expertise of the old guard X10 aficionados. Anything outside of that I’ll be discussing with the relevant experts in their field. I think we know by now that X10 sits comfortably in any home automation ecosystem. In fact I’m currently working on an Open AI project which amazingly can comfortably accommodate and integrate the concept of X10 after all these years. Quite scary because you no longer need any coding experience to create a home automation system. So it’s safe to say that X10 ain’t going away anytime soon. Not something you can say easily about some of the latter day technologies.

I don't  have a favorite x10 module but do use the CM15A the most. Since embedding a raspberry pi into a few they have become the key element to both my off grid and city residences.
I do have a few x10 devices that I found to be useless, the credit card remote is one that comes to mind.
 Like many users here l have a box full of spare x10 devices or that have been replaced with newer technology  but just can't  part with.

Like many of the long time users here my system is mainly x10 both at my city and off grid place. However with a rasberrypi I've intergrated several other protocols into and meshed with my setup. X10 just doesn't have some modules that will work for some things. Like brobin I think  "Other Automation Systems" section would be the place for a thread like that. Although you never considered a x10 component in the solution it doesn't  mean that one couldn't be incorporated. 

I think the key here is X10 forum. It’s probably the last platform remaining where users of X10 can come together to discuss all aspects of X10 and how this technology can continue to thrive within the larger ecosystem that is known as home automation. If we drift too far away from the subject matter of X10 this forum just becomes another general home automation forum and the subject X10 will eventually fade away.

Personally I use both the CM11 and CM15 controllers and with the aid of something as discreet as a Raspberry Pi Zero W and the likes of HomeGenie have turned it into a dedicated X10 controller. When necessary this can be easily extended to incorporate other technologies but the key here is X10 stands at the heart of this setup. If I needed it Alexa can be easily integrated directly into the setup.

I reckon you decide what is important to you and you run with it but for the sake of this forum and it’s user base it’s important we continue to keep X10 at the heart of the discussion.

The "Other Automation Systems" topic is a good place for those discussions.