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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Troubleshooting Automation Problems => Topic started by: robster on January 16, 2007, 01:34:48 PM

Title: House Code Overlap???
Post by: robster on January 16, 2007, 01:34:48 PM

Here's a new one for me.  My CM15 has been rock-solid, but every now and again my front yard landscape lights on D12 get turned on by my media room motion sensor on L9.  It does not happen reliably, just occasionally, so I don't know if the lights are triggered by the L9 sensor's ON or OFF.  Any thoughts on this?  In the meantime I'm just going to change the address for the landscape lights.

Thanks for the help,

Rob

Additional info: Passive phase coupler on dryer.
                      Filters on identified signal suckers.
                      No macros triggered by motion sensor - just direct light on and off.
                      Currently three motion sensors in my house.
                       Currently about a dozen timers in use.

Title: Re: House Code Overlap???
Post by: Puck on January 16, 2007, 03:35:21 PM

To go from L9 to D12 takes 3 bits to be toggled... for this to have happened on more than one occasion, then it can't be random noise.

Something in your set up is triggering D12 when it see's L9. It could possibly be a corrupted "*.AHX" file.

What version of AHP are you using?
Have you done any version updates or major program changes prior to this occurring?

Title: Re: House Code Overlap???
Post by: Tuicemen on January 16, 2007, 05:53:14 PM

One other thing to check is the condition of the batteries in the sensor! Although they usualy reset to A1(the default) when failing. I have seen them go to different house codes and unit codes other than the default::)

Title: Re: House Code Overlap???
Post by: robster on January 17, 2007, 10:02:52 AM

Will check out all your suggestions.  I'm running the most-recent code as of 2 weeks ago, no macros.  The sensor still sends commands out to reliably turn the media room lights on-off, so I don't think I have a battery problem, although the batteries are about a year old.  I have several projects going right now, but will investigate and report back soon.  Once again, thanks for your help!
Rob