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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Topic started by: grahamk on October 01, 2011, 12:08:15 PM
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Is there a Wall switch that sends it's state when manually it is turned on?
When I manually turn the lights on or off from the switch I want to run a macro in AHP... Current wall switches that I have don;t seem to send their state when manually turned on/off. Does one exist that does?
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No X10 switch sends a message when locally activated.
The Smarthome Insteon and Icon switches can have a X10 address add to them and will send a message when locally toggled. With one difference. Dimmer ones send an On when turned on and an Off when turned off, but send a %dim when set to a dimmed level. The X10 controllers do not use the %dim. The older X10 two way modules used Extended X10 messaging. The relay type send the On and Off when activeted
Also the Insteon and Icon switch line require a real neutral power connection.
I believe some have indicated that certain Leviton models are also two way.
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Just to follow up on this, I was using a 2-way Insteon dimmer module while testing the XTB-232. The automation software was Home Control Assistant (HCA). A free version that supports only the X10 protocol is available on their website. The two-way control worked really well, and HCA knew whenever I turned on the lamp locally. HCA can handle both the preset dim codes used by the Insteon devices and the extended codes used by the LM14A.
Jeff
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Thanks Jeff. For the added information.
I had only tried my Insteon Dimmers with a CM15A and AHP.
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Thanks Jeff
I will definately be looking in to that :)%