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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Troubleshooting Automation Problems => Topic started by: theycallmevern on February 05, 2008, 10:51:49 PM
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hello all!
i just received my first home automation kit.
i plugged in the transceiver and the wall switches, set the home code to A and i have 2 small table lamps and 1 larger standing lamp all set to number 1.
The small key chain style remote is all i have now, i didnt realise i had to get a different remote when i orderd i acually thought it came with it...but anyways.
so, all was well, they turned on and off dimmed the whole 9 yards.
i hit the bedroom and install the wall switch To A-2 and bang...works awesome!
now, please someone explain to me why my 3 lamps will no longer turn on or off for me :-)
i can hear the tranceiver click on and off but the lights fail to turn on.
Thanks for any help in advance!
-vern
Update: im offically 100% confused and aggravated.
this should be pretty simple right...cut and dry i mean, i like to consider myself a pretty handy dude but this is insane.
i had it working.......i had it on for about 15 minutes, i go to head to sleep and it the off button and it doesent shut off.
heres what ive gone thru....i changed the bulbs from energy saver ones because they made a humming noise that was driving me nuts to a different type, they didnt make a humming noise but flickerd alot and i may have had a seizure LOL, now i have regular 60 watt bulbs in.
where i have the tranceiver nothing is plugged into it but if i DO plug one of the 3 lamps into it and the other 2 the usual way i can get them to work on and off just fine....however i shouldnt have to do that or should i? i mean i had it working at one time without it hooked up that way but why would it just not turn off out of the blue when it was perfectly fine.
i also really liek the idea of using energy saving bulbs is there a cirtian type im soposed to use?
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over 20 views and no advice?
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Hard to figure out what you are asking.
If I understand: you have three lights all addressed to A1. What modules control these lights?
You have one wall switch addressed to A2.
Suddenly the three A1 lights quit working, but the transceiver still clicks. That at least indicated the transceiver is receiving the key chain remotes signal RF, BUT the PLC (power line control, or power line carrier) signal the transceiver puts on your power lines is no longer getting through the the three modules you are using to control the A1 lights.
IF the A1 lights are still plugged in to the same outlets where they originally worked AND the transceiver is still in the same outlet where it originally worked, a sudden failure would indicate an electrical noise problem. CFL bulbs are one source for this interfering noise. Switching power like used in computers "power bricks" flat screen TVs, etc are an outher source. Search this forum for "noise"
IF the three lights OR the transceiver have been moved from the original outlets where they originally worked, you may have a phase coupling issue. Search this forum for "Coupling" "Phase", "phase coupling", and "repeaters".
X10 is an inexpensive method of remote control, but there are a number of things that can make it difficult to get the X10 signal throughout the house to all the modules you want to control. It is not difficult to fix, but just takes some effort to identify which set of problems you may be having..
Typically this indicates a noise problem. and the