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Title: Harware Interface Config cm11a
Post by: jhnidy on September 08, 2011, 08:15:12 AM
I am attempting to use ahp to program my cm11a.  To do this, I have installed a serial to usb converter - Y105.

When I fire this up and click on download timers and macros, a little bar appears on the lower left and after a couple of seconds, the program tells me that the download was successful.  But when I click on hardware interface config, it shows 55.66% for macros but zero for timed events and dusk/dawn.  Also the date is shown as 1/1/1601 at midnight.

Some of the timed events actually happen so something is going into the cm11a.  If anybody else is running this, do you actually see a number for timed events and dawn/dusk when things are working?

Thanks
Title: Re: Harware Interface Config cm11a
Post by: Brian H on September 08, 2011, 08:43:27 AM
In Tools Tab.
Did you select the interface CM11A and use the com port added by the USB to Serial adapter?

Are you using the latest AHP 3.316?
Title: Re: Harware Interface Config cm11a
Post by: jhnidy on September 08, 2011, 12:05:56 PM
yes and yes.  When the com port is correct, does the main screen ever indicate that I am connected to the cm11a?  I always get the message that the timers and macros have been downloaded but the status numbers for timed events and dusk/dawn remain at zero.
Title: Re: Harware Interface Config cm11a
Post by: Brian H on September 08, 2011, 01:22:14 PM
If it is not finding an Interface. When you start AHP it will give a pop up message of no Interface found.
Also on the left lower taskbar you may see a interface icon with a round red circle and slash on it.

I setup a CM11A with my serial port.
Cleared the interface.
Made a small timer program. One appliance module on at 1:05 PM and Off at 1:10 PM.
Downloaded it to the CM11A.
Closed AHP.
It ran as written.
Open AHP.
Hardware Configuration shows NO Timer memory or dusk dawn memory being used but 2.4% Macro Memory.  :o
Maybe a AHP 3.316 problem with a CM11A.
Title: Re: Harware Interface Config cm11a
Post by: dhouston on September 08, 2011, 01:42:45 PM
It may just be that the CM11A memory was organized differently since it had very limited EEPROM. It's been a long time so don't take this as gospel but I believe the CM11A put macros and timers into one lookup table.

I don't know whether the CM11A programming specifications are still available anywhere but they explained the lookup table organization in it.

EDIT: It is still available...
Title: Re: Harware Interface Config cm11a
Post by: Brian H on September 08, 2011, 03:04:20 PM
The link is broken, but it is not anything you did.
I have had the same problem with the X10 FTP site and links to manuals.
Seems our forum software insists on adding a http:// to the start of the link.

You maybe correct on the memory mapping.
I have seen a few other odd things with AHP and a CM11A.
Title: Re: Harware Interface Config cm11a
Post by: dhouston on September 08, 2011, 03:19:29 PM
Quote from: Brian H on September 08, 2011, 03:04:20 PM
The link is broken, but it is not anything you did.

Strange - it was working when I posted but now it's broken for me, too.

Anyway, timers and macros were stored together with individual look-up tables at the start of memory. So, AHP may just be reporting the total EEPROM used rather than trying to break it down into the two categories.
Title: Re: Harware Interface Config cm11a
Post by: Brian H on September 08, 2011, 03:27:36 PM
That sounds logical for the AHP memory use display with a CM11A.
X10 has not given much information in the Help files when a CM11A is used.