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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Troubleshooting Automation Problems => Topic started by: Brandt on August 20, 2010, 04:27:21 PM

Title: temporarily switching from heyu to activehome
Post by: Brandt on August 20, 2010, 04:27:21 PM

My linux HA server is down until I can get some new SATA cables from the manufacturer, so I'm wondering is there any FREE windows or mac software that I can use in the meantime to upload macros and timers to the cm11a?

Title: Re: Programming the CM11a
Post by: nybuck on August 21, 2010, 12:48:56 PM

ActiveHome (Windows) is free.

It can be downloaded from:
http://software.x10.com/pub/applications/activehome/ (http://software.x10.com/pub/applications/activehome/)

or:
http://www.smarthome.com.au/p--ActiveHome+vs+ActiveHome+Pro-317.html (http://www.smarthome.com.au/p--ActiveHome+vs+ActiveHome+Pro-317.html)

Try them out -  They worked the last time I checked.....   ;)

Title: Re: Programming the CM11a
Post by: Brandt on August 21, 2010, 10:16:36 PM

For some reason I thought activehome was like ~$50

Title: Re: Programming the CM11a
Post by: nybuck on August 21, 2010, 10:41:59 PM

'Best I can say is try it out...  I seem to remember it being free.

I bought a CM11A on Ebay that came with no software, and I know I got it working with one of those 2 links, if I recall correctly.  ;)

Title: Re: Programming the CM11a
Post by: Brandt on August 22, 2010, 12:33:50 AM

ok i was able to turn some basic modules on and off with it....

my pcs switches weren't responding as I chose the basic wall dimmer switch in AH.

also, it wasnt able to download the timers and macros that were already on the cm11 as uploaded by heyu. I would think it would be able to read the cm11a....


lastly is there software that enables activehome to support the w800usb antenna?

Title: Re: temporarily switching from heyu to activehome
Post by: dbemowsk on August 22, 2010, 10:39:17 AM

It is ActiveHome PRO that is $50 which needs the CM15A USB module.  ActiveHome is the older software that is free and uses the CM11A which is what you have.

Title: Re: temporarily switching from heyu to activehome
Post by: Brandt on August 22, 2010, 01:38:44 PM

Ok but it looks like the only way to use my w800usb is with the onalert plugin with ahp...

Also AH cant seem to read the cm11a's memory contents and I don't want to erase it ...

Title: Re: temporarily switching from heyu to activehome
Post by: Brian H on August 22, 2010, 02:27:43 PM

True AH can not read the CM11As memory.
Then again AHP can not read the CM15As memory either.