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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Topic started by: wlexxx on July 05, 2009, 02:35:27 PM

Title: can i make macros trigger off RF events
Post by: wlexxx on July 05, 2009, 02:35:27 PM

can  i make macros trigger off RF events like "Recv RF Disarm", for example?

wle.

Title: Re: can i make macros trigger off RF events
Post by: hawk1 on July 06, 2009, 10:08:39 AM

If you have AHP and Smart Macros this can probably be done.  Use the rf as the trigger.  You might want to setup a dummy switch too.  Someone else with alarm system knowledge might chime in here.   ;)

Title: Re: can i make macros trigger off RF events
Post by: wlexxx on July 06, 2009, 10:21:43 AM

i have ahp and smart macros, but i don;t see any choice in triggers except house/unit on/off codes

wle

Title: Re: can i make macros trigger off RF events
Post by: hawk1 on July 06, 2009, 10:28:41 AM

What exactly do you want to do?  What RF are you talking about?  X10 remote disarming the alarm?

Title: Re: can i make macros trigger off RF events
Post by: wlexxx on July 06, 2009, 10:33:58 AM

i want to relabel and reuse an existing [security] remote
[actually, i have several of them, including keychain remotes]

so i want the 'disarm' button, for instance, to turn on light M5 at 55% brightness, turn off light M6, etc

i would print a new label for the remote, so it doesn;t say 'arm, disarm' etc any more

also i want my existing door and window sensors to be able to trigger macros on the cm15a and AHP
[though this may be a different issue]


so i have to make AHP recognize different buttons that are being pressed on the remotes

wle.

Title: Re: can i make macros trigger off RF events
Post by: hawk1 on July 06, 2009, 10:37:47 AM

Yea, someone else with some security knowledge will have to chime in.  Sorry.  Have you tried doing a search?  Or looking in the OnAlert Threads?  Thats all I can recommend until someelse chimes in.

Title: Re: can i make macros trigger off RF events
Post by: beelocks on July 06, 2009, 12:59:36 PM

I use one of the little security remotes to trigger macros to turn my outside on, off and dim (to a preset 40%).

You need AHP with the OnAlert module and set it to trigger from a security module, you get to choose which security device and which button - I can't remember exactly how to do it because I'm not in front of that computer right now.

I also use the door/window sensors (MS10A) to trigger a couple of macros (basement lights on when the basement door is opened). I briefly experimented with the security motion sensors and they also seem to work.

Short answer...
Yes - use OnAlert plug-in.