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🖥️ActiveHome Pro => ActiveHome Pro General => Topic started by: Boighty on January 27, 2024, 09:58:01 AM
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B:( B:( B:( There.. that pretty well covers my morning.
Last night got home and noticed garage lights didn't come on. Got into house and house lights didn't come on. (these are on active eyes) and use a macro. Noticed evening lights didn't come on (a timer macro). Pretty much nothing working.
FF to this morning. I figured the usual pull/change batteries, clear, update interface, d/l config and plug it back in by the breaker box and I'd be up and running as usual. NOT. The CM15a can respond to a very close and limited number of devices but not even my stand alone controllers work ALL on ALL off no response. I tried this procedure multiple times and no improvement.
I've had X10 for years and remember when you guys started this forum. Fortunately I've solved all my problems and never had major issues.
Call me crazy, but I'm thinking this is my CM15a has cratered and it's time to buy a new one. I bought this one almost 5 years ago.
The price has almost doubled since then and this is pushing me toward expanding my KASA wifi but it's limited in what temperature the sensors work. My x10s work at -40 so tough to beat.
OK, I'm rambling... Do you think I'm correct in assuming it's the CM15a? NOTHING changed from when it was working perfect to not working at all.
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Any phase coupler or coupler/repeater in the house?
Absolutely nothing has changed? Even moving an existing device or charger?
You can try to start toggling breakers off or disconnecting devices to see if something on a circuit has started to fail.
If you have looked at Jeff's Tutorials. They may also give you a clue.
https://jvde.us/x10-troubleshooting/
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Thanks Brian,
yup, the 240v is coupled, nothing changed while I went to pick up the wife. The troubleshooting shouldn't apply but I've been through all this over the last several decades (started with BSR modules). Had similar issues and the usual routine I mentioned always got it going again. Not this time. >*<
If I buy another one, it will be at least my 3rd or maybe 4th cm15a, I've been through the good times and bad times of Activehome Pro, but this has me stumped. It's amazing how much a person relies on this thing performing correctly.
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My CM15A stopped turning on lights a few days ago as programed, the remote still worked. I ordered a new one from Amazon, just programmed it and will see tonight is it works.
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My CM15A has been working fine until I went in via my win11 laptop last night to update some timers...
Tonight, my lights did not come on as usual as set up in AHP and CM15A.
Now it does not turn any lights on via timers but still turns them off via timers.
When connected to PC, I can turn lights off via AHP but can't turn them on via the on screen module switches.
While looking at AHP, it registers correctly when turning lights on or off via WM100 (i.e.: Modules on screen show on and off correctly)
I don't know what I may have changed when clearing interface and then downloading updated timers...
Any help greatly appreciated!
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My CM15A has been working fine until I went in via my win11 laptop last night to update some timers...
Tonight, my lights did not come on as usual as set up in AHP and CM15A.
Now it does not turn any lights on via timers but still turns them off via timers.
When connected to PC, I can turn lights off via AHP but can't turn them on via the on screen module switches.
While looking at AHP, it registers correctly when turning lights on or off via WM100 (i.e.: Modules on screen show on and off correctly)
I don't know what I may have changed when clearing interface and then downloading updated timers...
Any help greatly appreciated!
Well, decided to create a new module (LM465) in AHP to test...worked pefectly...
Looked in activity monitor and saw that for some reason, all my timers and modules were now sending extended codes and that's why no on commands were being processed. All the ON commands from the WM100 were simple ON and they worked.
Don't know how to change that in AHP so simply deleted all my modules in AHP and rebuilt.
Everything works now that it's sending simple ON commands vs extended.