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🖥️ActiveHome Pro => ActiveHome Pro General => Topic started by: ericd on December 18, 2005, 10:28:14 PM
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Has anyone run into any issue with the timers
being off by 1 hour. Seems as thought there
is an issue with daylight savings time
calculation. Everything has been fine for
over a month but then I updated the
interface 2 days ago and now everything is
off by an hour and my laptop time is correct.
Any thoughts???
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I noticed the sames issue last night. Lights
clicked off a 9:00pm instead of 10:00p.
Plug the cm15a back into the laptop check
clock and programming. Spent a hour check
all macros and timer, but came up with
nothing. I'm running 3.198.
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Version 3.198. I had the same problem Sunday
morning and evening with timers. They all
fired 1 hour early. The dusk triggered macro
fired at the correct time. This leads me to
believe that the unit did indeed think that
daylight time had returned. I had been
running since my last download in September
with no problems. I made a couple of changes
to timers that I had been putting off and
redownloaded between 10 and 10:30 PM Sunday
night. The 11:00 PM and 11:30 PM timers
fired at the correct time. My next timer is
at 6 PM so I won't know until then if it will
continue to work.
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Same scenario here.. not a clock drift
problem. Timed events ran as expected last
Friday, but as of Saturday AM were exactly
1 hour early. 3.198 in use also (after
months of good timekeeping and correct DST
behavior with 3.183). Is the AHP update
causing this?
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Me too, my 10 pm timer fired off at 9 pm.
Here we go again!
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Yea, I noticed it this morning. Lights came
on at 4:30 am instead of 5:30. Lifted my
head of the pillow and did a bleary
eyed "what the *%!&".
Haven't had it hooked up since the time
change.
Well, since I was up an hour early...
Hooked it back up, updated to the latest
(3.198 or 3.199?), cleared the interface
memory, & redownload.
We will see what happens (anyone want to
call tech support?).
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Same thing happened here in New Orleans,
central time. I havent updated or changed
anything for weeks. Then last night the
lights went out one hour earlier.
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And, I can't blame FEMA or Katrina.
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My 6 PM timer fired on time so re-downloading
the program appears to have fixed the problem.
I just hope it stays fixed.
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If your !@#$%$%^&* government wouldn't mess
around with daylight savings time then we
wouldn't have this problem now would we.
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I had the same problem, would someone from
x10 like to comment on how so many of us
all had the same issue?
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That is so weird! Mine did exactly the same
thing on Sunday, and I had to pull the
batteries (hard reset) and then re-program
it. I'm still running 3.187, and the CM15A
had not been disturbed in any way for the
last several weeks. What, was it a cosmic
space-time warp or something that affected
all AHP owners, no matter where they lived?
(cue music from Twilight Zone here)
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I love then end of the means. It's path to
get there that continuous to frustrate me.
I love the concept of the CM15A, but I don't
know how much more I can take. “Robust
first, features second” Maybe one device
can’t do it all!
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Same problem here too. About 2 weeks early
to be a leap second problem. My old CM11A
used to lose it's mind every so often. I
assumed it happened CM15A too.
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I do not believe all our units lost their
minds at the same time. There must be a
programming issue that caused this to
happen. Over 4 months ago I took both my
units apart and added decoupling
capacitors. Since then I have had stable
operation. Before I did this I would be
lucky to get a month of stable operation
from either unit. I left one unit hooked
to a PC and one unit disconnected. The
disconnected unit was set to ring a chime
every day at 8:00 AM and for the last 4
months triggered the chime everyday at the
correct time. It now triggers the chime at
7:00 AM every day. The Unit connected to my
PC has not had any issues but I believe
this is because it gets its time updated
from the PC every time the program is
started. I connected the PC to the
disconnected unit and updated the time
tonight. I expect that this will fix the
clock issue. I wonder why x10 has not had
any comment on this issue. I am sure they
read this forum.
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Hate to see this thread get buried before
anyone at X10 gets a chance to comment.
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X10-Pro Now that you're back from vacation,
can you please comment on this?
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Thanks for popping this thread up. I don't
know why it would have occurred, but I'll see
if there's anything I can figure out.
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I guess I missed the whole thing !
I updated my CM15A early on new years day,
pull from closet,connect to PC, update time 1
hour and make a minor program change. My time
has been perfect for months... chimes and
lights right on time... guess I should have
waited a day or two so mine could have been
off an hour also... o well, a once a year
time change is no biggie... and I had to
correct for that "leap second" from the
atomic clock.
SteveRF
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Was anything found to be wrong concerning
this problem. My time suddenly went back
again last night and am wondering if its not
this same problem again.
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I too am plagued by the time being off by
one hour! Cleared interface, downloaded
all timers/macros and OK for a few days ...
then all timers early by one hour.
HELP! WHAT TO DO?
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Playitagainsam,
Make sure you have the correct location in
the Hardware Configuation. If you make
location changes you MUST upload it to the
interface. The only way the interface knows
what time it is is to have everything right
for wherever you are.