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martin

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Chime Module acting as a clock
« on: March 30, 2005, 10:34:35 AM »

Folks,

I have a chime module on the way. What would
be the best set-up if I want it to chime on
the hour as a clock?
Would it be to create Timer events for every
hour I want or a Macro with an hour delay
initially triggered by a single Timer on my
Chime module?
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donald mcmow

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Re: Chime Module acting as a clock
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2005, 10:43:00 AM »

Timer events for every hour as this keeps
the macro event portion of the interface
available for your macros. Anything that
needs to run at a specific time should be
timed.
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SteveRF

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Re: Chime Module acting as a clock
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2005, 12:33:48 PM »

Martin,
I use a timer for a chime alert at 7am and
again at 5pm each day except Saturday and
Sunday. I also use the X10Dispatch program to
give audible announcements at 7 and 5 and for
other events throughout the day.  So far, so
good... My only regret is that the chime is
not adjustable for loudness, tone or sequence
of tones.
Regards,
SteveRF
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Bob Taylor

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Re: Chime Module acting as a clock
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2005, 03:02:34 PM »

I use a chime module with outside motion
detector to alert when someone is in our
courtyard after dusk till sun rise.  I also
have it chime at dusk -30 minutes as I have
several lights that come on then, the chime
reminds me that lights should start comming
on.  It would have been nice to have a
selectable tone, volume, etc......
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roger1818

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Re: Chime Module acting as a clock
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2005, 04:36:42 PM »

There is an article at: http://www.idobartana.com/hakb/modifying_chime_module.htm which describes how to modify the tone and the volume of the module.
« Last Edit: October 24, 2009, 12:39:04 AM by -Bill- (of wgjohns.com) »
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Bob Taylor

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Re: Chime Module acting as a clock
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2005, 04:49:20 PM »

Roger H.   --- To bad X10 did not add a
couple of bucks to the price of the module
and add this.....
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Bob Taylor

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Re: Chime Module acting as a clock
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2005, 04:50:15 PM »

Roger H.   Thanks for the input, I may
modify my module.....
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SteveRF

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Re: Chime Module acting as a clock
« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2005, 07:10:35 PM »

Roger, thanks for info
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