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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Troubleshooting Automation Problems => Topic started by: bravoland on January 26, 2007, 05:43:07 PM
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I have tried various things before posting. so here goes
I am having trouble with a ws467 (that controls a ceiling light fixture with 2 75w bulbs) I cannot get the ws467 to dim using Remote controls
I used Activehome for the past 2 years.. it worked fine during that time.. in early december.. the ws467 appeared to go dead..as it was stuck in always on mode. i replaced the ws467 with another unit and all was well.. after christmas i decided to give AHP a try. i did have to buy a signal filter for one of my home electronics but other than that everything works pretty much the same.. however i can no longer dim the ws467 thru a palmpad or UR81A . when i send dim commands from a palm pad or a UR81A nothing happens.. I CAN turn ON and OFF the Switch just fine with the remotes.. if i go into AHP i can manually dim the light and raise it back using the slider bar.
The CM15A is in the Same room that the light switch is in. i unplugged everything in the room and tried.. same results.. i bought another ws467 and swapped out..same results..
i have tried fresh batteries and moving the CM15A to another location.
Can anyone suggest anything else to try?
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I have tried various things before posting. so here goes
I am having trouble with a ws467 (that controls a ceiling light fixture with 2 75w bulbs) I cannot get the ws467 to dim using Remote controls
I used Activehome for the past 2 years.. it worked fine during that time.. in early december.. the ws467 appeared to go dead..as it was stuck in always on mode. i replaced the ws467 with another unit and all was well.. after christmas i decided to give AHP a try. i did have to buy a signal filter for one of my home electronics but other than that everything works pretty much the same.. however i can no longer dim the ws467 thru a palmpad or UR81A . when i send dim commands from a palm pad or a UR81A nothing happens.. I CAN turn ON and OFF the Switch just fine with the remotes.. if i go into AHP i can manually dim the light and raise it back using the slider bar.
The CM15A is in the Same room that the light switch is in. i unplugged everything in the room and tried.. same results.. i bought another ws467 and swapped out..same results..
i have tried fresh batteries and moving the CM15A to another location.
Can anyone suggest anything else to try?
Although you didn't directly state it, I am guessing that you have an RF transceiver of some sort (besides the CM15A) (a TM751 maybe?) since you were controlling modules with palm-pads before you got AHP. Since the CM15A is also a RF tranceiver, you may be experiencing command collisions on the power line from both tranceivers trying to tranceive the RF signal to the power line especially on long commands like dimming. Assuming I am correct, check the Transceived House code setting for the CM15A in AHP and disable it's tranceiving of any house code that you have another transceiver module set to.
If I'm wrong... Please give us more info about your setup.
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Thank you bill! you hit the nail right on the head. The first x10 piece i bought was the ds7000 alarm.. then i bought activehome with a cm11a .. i then purchased a IR543 Infrared controller as i have one of those fancy remotes that can send x10 signals.. i guess my confusion was i didn't think their was any difference between a Cm11a and CM15a other than USb and maybe a little more space to store.. once you mentioned turning off the trans in AHP ..i remembered seeing that screen..went in there turned it off and all is well.
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Very cool! 8) ;D
Glad I could help.