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🖥️ActiveHome Pro => ActiveHome Pro General => Help & Troubleshooting => Topic started by: bcondemi on December 17, 2010, 05:29:18 PM
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From what I've read, it seems mouse house is a 'mac' x10 software. The site explains that a cable (CKllA) i think is required to plug into your mac to make the system work...
However, I already have a cm15a plugged to my electrical plug (near my electrical panel). Is there a wireless hardware solution I can connect to the cm15a that will communicate wirelessly to my mac based software?
Thank-you
BC
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Sure, there is "Wireless USB Hub" adaptors all over the place. Check Best Buy, Ebay, etc.
http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Belkin-High-Speed-Wireless-USB-Hub-F5U303-VISTA-/400180110057?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d2c97e2e9
If looking for Mac software, investigate "Xtension" from Sand Hill Engineering. I used it years ago and liked it very much.
http://www.shed.com/about.html
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No, I didn't mean a wireless USB that I couldn't connect my cm15a to...
Besides the cm15a ( that hasn't had a software update nor hardware change in years ). Is there even another unit similar to the cm15a that can be used via wireless? Or networked through a router.
BC
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I have not seen any newer Mac programs for the CM15A but X10 has updated the Windows AHP numerous times recently.
http://www.x10.com/support/rev_ahp.htm
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Well that's one problem I seem to have.....My version is 3.236.
Everytime I go to look for updates, The pop-up says 3.236 is the latest version and I'm using the latest release (mybe not in all those words) but that's the version I have. It won't let me update higher than that.
Now, I got my AHP from a reseller on ebay years ago...and...I've blocked all x10 emails from the x10 server as well because of all the spam they sent me. I even don't use myhouse online or any web based plug-in because of the mass amounts of advertising they sent me.....I simply had to cut x10 off.
Could this be maybe why I can't update in the last three years?
BC
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@BC:
The update function in AHP hasn't worked for ages.
Visit :
http://www.x10.com/support/support_soft1.htm
To get the latest software.
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I agree. My 3.271 never said I had any updates either.
Had to find them on the software site myself.
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from what I gather, mousehouse was a mac software that ran the old serial interface. X10 sold it (the cm11) with a special mac cable, and pointed you to the mouse house site (www.mousehouse.net/se) for a software download. It appears that the site is now just a parking space for the hosting company.
I can't find anything about mousehouse and the cm15a, but you know, those mouse's houses are tiny, and I may have overlooked it.
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Google search found a trial Mouse House 2.0.6 for the real OLD CP290 and as you found. Eventually ended up on the parking space for the hosting company.
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From what I've read, it seems mouse house is a 'mac' x10 software. The site explains that a cable (CKllA) i think is required to plug into your mac to make the system work...
However, I already have a cm15a plugged to my electrical plug (near my electrical panel). Is there a wireless hardware solution I can connect to the cm15a that will communicate wirelessly to my mac based software?
Thank-you
BC
From what I read here and the sites, it looks like unless you have access to a Way-Bak Machine, you are out of luck as far as Mouse House and it only seemed to work with serial devices like the CP290 and the CM11A.
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Damn!....I was hoping I could get away from my antique pc machine. I only turn it on to update timers on the cm15a. I was hoping x10 would write the software for a mac based osx.
Is there a mac version? I don't think so? However, I've seen another controller.....
http://www.smarthome.com/31276/INSTEON-X10-RF-Wireless-Sensor-Receiver-EZX10RF/p.aspx
and the mac software...
http://www.perceptiveautomation.com/indigo/index.html
Not sure who's tried this stuff before but I may try it out if there is no mac solution for the cm15a?
BC
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Thinking Home is the only Mac OS X based program to actually write a schedule on to the CM15A.
https://www.alwaysthinking.com/thinkingHome.html
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The EZX10RF is not a controller.
It is an all address X10 transceiver. The added feature is it can take an X10 address and map it to an Insteon module linked to it.