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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Troubleshooting Automation Problems => Topic started by: marineau on December 26, 2006, 01:30:04 PM

Title: CM15A slowlest than MC460
Post by: marineau on December 26, 2006, 01:30:04 PM

I noticed that Pc_Controller CM15A is slowlest than MiniController MC460 ... >:(

Does exist another controller(other than CM15A) that can plug to PC and that PC can control any module via PowerLine and faster that CM15A ?

Thanks

Title: Re: CM15A slowlest than MC460
Post by: Brian H on December 26, 2006, 01:52:31 PM

Very possible. The MiniController. Push a button and the command goes right out. CM15A has to receive the command from the USB port and then process and send the signal.

Title: Re: CM15A slowlest than MC460
Post by: marineau on December 26, 2006, 03:48:36 PM

Quote from: Brian H on December 26, 2006, 01:52:31 PM

Very possible. The MiniController. Push a button and the command goes right out. CM15A has to receive the command from the USB port and then process and send the signal.

Does a CM11A is faster than CM15A to send signal to PowerLine ?

Title: Re: CM15A slowlest than MC460
Post by: Brian H on December 26, 2006, 06:07:36 PM

I don't know. I never compared them.
Now that I use XP the older serial port Active Home is flaky and drops communications from time to time.

Title: Re: CM15A slowlest than MC460
Post by: Dan Lawrence on December 26, 2006, 06:55:28 PM

Brian,

Try the USB to Serial port device that's been talked about here. It seems to solve the CM11A dropout problem for follks who have XP and don't want the AHP/CM15A.