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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Troubleshooting Automation Problems => Topic started by: chrisrigby on March 23, 2007, 09:07:01 AM

Title: How do I get my lights to dim all the way down in a steady way?
Post by: chrisrigby on March 23, 2007, 09:07:01 AM

I have an IR543, a transceiver, and 2 lamp modules in my entertainment room.  I am using a Universal Remote MX900 as my control already programmed with the X10 codes.  Currently, I can turn on/off and dim with button presses, however any attempt to create a dimming macro has resulted in futility.  It is too difficult to time the button presses to get a nice steady dimming of the lights.  Is there a single button code that will dim the lights (at different addresses) in one shot?  I have a standing lamp at one address and a table lamp at another.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Title: Re: How do I get my lights to dim all the way down in a steady way?
Post by: HA Dave on March 23, 2007, 10:34:57 AM

Quote from: chrisrigby on March 23, 2007, 09:07:01 AM

I have an IR543, a transceiver, and 2 lamp modules in my entertainment room.  I am using a Universal Remote MX900 as my control already programmed with the X10 codes.  Currently, I can turn on/off and dim with button presses, however any attempt to create a dimming macro has resulted in futility.  It is too difficult to time the button presses to get a nice steady dimming of the lights.  Is there a single button code that will dim the lights (at different addresses) in one shot?  I have a standing lamp at one address and a table lamp at another.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Are you using the AHP?

It sounds (reads) like your controlling a home theater. I have a similar set-up for my home theater.    (http://davesdomainonline.com/ht/ht.htm). You could put both lamps on the same house/unit code, that would help. But for real IMPRESSIVE automated dimming create a macro(s) in AHP and trigger it/them through your remote...via the IR543.

Title: Re: How do I get my lights to dim all the way down in a steady way?
Post by: Walt2 on March 23, 2007, 11:23:47 AM

Replace your standard lamp modules with 2-way lamp modules.  Beyond the 2-way stuff, these have some nice little features, like a simple "off" command will result in a slow theater like dim down to off.

Title: Re: How do I get my lights to dim all the way down in a steady way?
Post by: chrisrigby on March 25, 2007, 09:47:40 AM

Thanks for the tip.  I've got the software disk and I'll give it a try.