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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Troubleshooting Automation Problems => Topic started by: marcleva on January 12, 2007, 10:59:43 PM
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I'm doing a project and have encounted some major frustration. I purchased five RS124 A10 relays and I cannot figure out how to program them. I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction???
I have all 5 relays hooked up to the powerline as well as my X10 transmitter and other x10 devices. All my X10 devices work fine, but I am having trouble communicating with my A10 relays. All five came defaulted to the A1 address so a sendplc "a1 on" command turns everything on and an "a1 off" command turns them all off. I have the manual and it states you need to press and hold the button and then send the desired address twice. However, how do I send the address using the X10 sdk? What is the command I need to use?
Is there a controller I need in addition to my software?
PLEASE HELP!!!
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I would assume:
SendAction( "sendplc", "a1 on")
(an appropriate pause)
SendAction( "sendplc", "a1 on")
That work?
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I assumed that was the only command I needed to do. I tried a sendplc "a2 on" twice with a pause in between and still no luck. Now I have my entire project wired up and I can't move forward until I assign the relays a different address. By the looks of the instructions I thought it would be pretty straight forward.
The wiring is pretty straightforward and the pdf manual can be seen at http://www.smarthome.com/manuals/2250awa.pdf
Any other tips or ideas?
Marc
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The instructions say send the address. I didn't see a function command mentioned. Try a2 and no on or off.
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That worked perfectly. Brian you ended my 17 hour debugging nightmare with 1 sentence. It's always the simplest solution that solves the problem. THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yes, thanks Brian H!
I too had my mind clouded by the description in the SDK and it never occurred to me that you didn't have to include a command with the address! :-[ ::)
You earned a "helpful" from me! ;D
Thanks!
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Glad it helped. I have run into other brand devices that use a set of Addresses only for doing things like add a scene etc.
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You earned a "helpful" from me! ;D
That's what I like to see! Appreciation, recognition and communication!! :)
As opposed to: SNIPERS: Exactly *WHAT* Does Your Anonymous DING Accomplish (in your mind)? (http://www.x10community.com/forums/index.php?topic=10997.0)