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Title: Chime Module acting as a clock
Post by: martin on March 30, 2005, 10:34:35 AM

Folks,

I have a chime module on the way. What would
be the best set-up if I want it to chime on
the hour as a clock?
Would it be to create Timer events for every
hour I want or a Macro with an hour delay
initially triggered by a single Timer on my
Chime module?

Title: Re: Chime Module acting as a clock
Post by: donald mcmow on March 30, 2005, 10:43:00 AM

Timer events for every hour as this keeps
the macro event portion of the interface
available for your macros. Anything that
needs to run at a specific time should be
timed.

Title: Re: Chime Module acting as a clock
Post by: SteveRF on March 30, 2005, 12:33:48 PM

Martin,
I use a timer for a chime alert at 7am and
again at 5pm each day except Saturday and
Sunday. I also use the X10Dispatch program to
give audible announcements at 7 and 5 and for
other events throughout the day.  So far, so
good... My only regret is that the chime is
not adjustable for loudness, tone or sequence
of tones.
Regards,
SteveRF

Title: Re: Chime Module acting as a clock
Post by: Bob Taylor on March 30, 2005, 03:02:34 PM

I use a chime module with outside motion
detector to alert when someone is in our
courtyard after dusk till sun rise.  I also
have it chime at dusk -30 minutes as I have
several lights that come on then, the chime
reminds me that lights should start comming
on.  It would have been nice to have a
selectable tone, volume, etc......

Title: Re: Chime Module acting as a clock
Post by: roger1818 on March 30, 2005, 04:36:42 PM

There is an article at: http://www.idobartana.com/hakb/modifying_chime_module.htm (http://www.idobartana.com/hakb/modifying_chime_module.htm) which describes how to modify the tone and the volume of the module.

Title: Re: Chime Module acting as a clock
Post by: Bob Taylor on March 30, 2005, 04:49:20 PM

Roger H.   --- To bad X10 did not add a
couple of bucks to the price of the module
and add this.....

Title: Re: Chime Module acting as a clock
Post by: Bob Taylor on March 30, 2005, 04:50:15 PM

Roger H.   Thanks for the input, I may
modify my module.....

Title: Re: Chime Module acting as a clock
Post by: SteveRF on March 31, 2005, 07:10:35 PM

Roger, thanks for info