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Title: Module "drifts" beyomd dimming point set in software
Post by: vinyardie on December 07, 2010, 09:34:29 PM

When I attempt to dim lamp and wall modules from my computer.  The actual setting drifts up or down beyond the point that I set.
HELP!

Title: Re: Module "drifts" beyomd dimming point set in software
Post by: Dan Lawrence on December 07, 2010, 09:42:44 PM

When you raise or lower the brightness through AHP at a module, you never can get it exactly to what the timer sets.  It's really "hit-or-miss". if the lamp dims to 60% and you want 75%, you may hit it exactly or pull it over where you want. It's always been that way all the way back to Active Home, the predecessor of ActiveHome Pro.

Title: Re: Module "drifts" beyomd dimming point set in software
Post by: vinyardie on December 07, 2010, 09:45:18 PM

Thanks Dan.  I have been using AH and AHP for years and it has never happened before.  I got a new Phase Coupler/Signal Booster and maybe I am just seeing real-time what was always going on all along!  Thanks again.

Title: Re: Module "drifts" beyomd dimming point set in software
Post by: Dan Lawrence on December 07, 2010, 09:54:49 PM

Quote from: vinyardie on December 07, 2010, 09:45:18 PM

Thanks Dan.  I have been using AH and AHP for years and it has never happened before.  I got a new Phase Coupler/Signal Booster and maybe I am just seeing real-time what was always going on all along!  Thanks again.

Phase Couplers/signal booster couple the phases so X10 signals can work anywhere in a house, signal boosters increase the X10 signals for long runs that might lower them.  Neither have an affect on AHP.  You might have not noticed it before

The only time I ever manually set brightness is when after a reboot (where X10nets.exe drops out and if you had AHP open before and now certain lights are not showing status so you use the "slider' to approximate the timer's brightness and that's really "hit or miss".   

Title: Re: Module "drifts" beyomd dimming point set in software
Post by: troll334 on December 08, 2010, 08:52:33 AM

I wonder if the booster might be pushing out duplicate commands from time-to-time. I haven't taken the time to learn
exactly how they communicate but if it's seeing collisions; like the old ethernet, it might be resending commands.
maybe...? Take the coupler booster offline for a bit and see if your troubles go away. Oh, and make sure you don't
have a second one sitting on the line somewhere. I did for a while 'cause I forgot to take him offline after getting
the XTB-IIR. Had a kinds of goofiness going on.

Title: Re: Module "drifts" beyomd dimming point set in software
Post by: Brian H on December 08, 2010, 09:52:44 AM

Is it a booster or a coupler repeater?
Some models have been known to send extra commands when a CM15A is part of the mix.

Since you have been using X10 for awhile. The modules in question are old enough to not be Soft Start ones?