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Title: looping light effects
Post by: pietro on November 30, 2009, 09:17:54 AM
Hi all, I am a beginner. I am in need of looping a macro that creates light effects by switching on and off and dimming 4 different lamp modules, from a specific hour to an other, called by a timer. The macro lasts about 70 seconds. How can I make it looping? Thank you so much.
Title: Re: looping light effects
Post by: davideinmd on November 30, 2009, 09:36:57 AM
I found this post in the forums...
http://forums.x10.com/index.php?topic=14912.0
Title: Re: looping light effects
Post by: pietro on November 30, 2009, 09:42:48 AM
did you try it? I am going to.
Title: Re: looping light effects
Post by: Knightrider on November 30, 2009, 06:57:10 PM
In the past, I've decorated the tree with 4 strands of miniature lights (one red, one green, one blue and one white) each plugged into it's own lamp module.
Units were set to C1, C2, C3, and C4.

The macro went something like this:

Trigger - C5 ON

C1 - Bright 100%
Delay 1 Minute
C4 - Dim 100%
Delay 1 Minute
C2 - Bright 100%
Delay 1 Minute
C1 - Dim 100%
Delay 1 Minute
C3 - Bright 100%
Delay 1 Minute
C2 - Dim 100%
Delay 1 Minute
C4 - Bright 100%
Delay 1 Minute
C3 - Dim 100%
Delay 1 Minute
C5 - On

The effect was great, but really made the CM15 difficult to deal with, and to get it to stop, you had to purge delayed macro events.

Was really troublesome when someone activated the "C5 On" whilst the macro was already engaged.
Title: Re: looping light effects
Post by: HA Dave on November 30, 2009, 07:07:17 PM
Quote from: Knightrider on November 30, 2009, 06:57:10 PM
In the past, I've decorated the tree with 4 strands of miniature lights (one red, one green, one blue and one white) each plugged into it's own lamp module.
The effect was great, but really made the CM15 difficult to deal with, and to get it to stop, you had to purge delayed macro events.
Was really troublesome when someone activated the "C5 On" whilst the macro was already engaged.

You could plug all four modules AND the CM15A into a single power strip.... and then plug the powerstrip into a filter. That would preserve the integrity of your homes setup... and allow for an "C all off" to halt it.
Title: Re: looping light effects
Post by: Knightrider on November 30, 2009, 07:22:45 PM
Quote from: Dave_x10_L on November 30, 2009, 07:07:17 PM
You could plug all four modules AND the CM15A into a single power strip.... and then plug the powerstrip into a filter. That would preserve the integrity of your homes setup... and allow for an "C all off" to halt it.

Yeah, but that would require work. Around the holidays, I develop a serious allergy to work.
Title: Re: looping light effects
Post by: dave w on November 30, 2009, 08:56:37 PM
Quote from: Knightrider on November 30, 2009, 07:22:45 PM

Yeah, but that would require work. Around the holidays, I develop a serious allergy to work.
A-a-a-a-choo!