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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Topic started by: rjuch on October 22, 2007, 08:30:47 AM
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How much will the CM11 store in memory and what will it be able to do while the pc is off ? Timed events, macros ? Events based on conditions ?
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How much will the CM11 store in memory and what will it be able to do while the pc is off ? Timed events, macros ? Events based on conditions ?
The CM11A has a 1K EEPROM. It can store timers and macros for execution while disconnected from the PC but has no capability for flags or conditions.
You can pack quite a lot into that 1K. A timer (which controls two macro events) occupies 9 bytes, but you may need more than one to cover the entire year due to Daylight Time or quite a few to handle timers based on Dawn or Dusk times. A macro element, e.g., turn On from 1 to 16 modules, typically occupies 3 bytes (4 bytes for dims and brights, 6 bytes for Extended Code commands). A macro itself occupies the sum of its elements plus 2 bytes and the trigger for it occupies 3 bytes.
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Remember, the CM11 is only sold in The Netherlands and Belgium.
It's not a US/Canada item.
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so how do I upload preprogrammed things to the CM11 ? Will home seer automatically load all schedules and macros onto the memory of the CM11 or do I have to manage this seperately ? How do you know whats loaded and whats not made it onto the memory ?
I live in south africa, so we get the CM11 ... limited here we use 220v so our choice is limited to whatever is available in 220v
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so how do I upload preprogrammed things to the CM11 ? Will home seer automatically load all schedules and macros onto the memory of the CM11 or do I have to manage this seperately ? How do you know whats loaded and whats not made it onto the memory ?
I live in south africa, so we get the CM11 ... limited here we use 220v so our choice is limited to whatever is available in 220v
I don't think HomeSeer has the capability of loading timers and macros into the CM11 memory. As far as I know, the only Windows based programs with this capability are ActiveHome and Zeus (http://www.zeushome.com). If you have a computer available running Linux or Mac OS X, the Heyu software (http://www.heyu.org) has this capability and will show you exactly what it has loaded into the memory.
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so how do I upload preprogrammed things to the CM11 ? Will home seer automatically load all schedules and macros onto the memory of the CM11 or do I have to manage this seperately ? How do you know whats loaded and whats not made it onto the memory ?
Homeseer can not load anything to any of the various PLC interfaces it can talk to (X10, ACT, Smartthome, etc.). Homeseer only uses the CM11 as a gateway to your powerlines, it only runs from the computer.
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Active Home is available for download on the X10 Support pages.
http://www.x10.com/support/support.htm
In the Download X10 Software Tab.
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Two problems.
1. The OP is in South Africa.
2. Active Home may not recognize the CM11 as it was built for the CM11A, not a European interface.
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Two problems.
1. The OP is in South Africa.
2. Active Home may not recognize the CM11 as it was built for the CM11A, not a European interface.
The North American and International versions of the CM11 are software compatible.