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Title: Nighttime condition not working
Post by: randy on November 30, 2004, 11:51:35 AM
I have a conditional macro that turns on my bathroom
light and dims it to 80% when it gets a B5 on from a
motion sensor. I put a condition in it to check first to see
if the module is on. This keeps it from cycling the light to
100% and back down to 80% every time the motion sensor
sees movement. So far so good. Next I introduced a
Nighttime condition to the macro and everything broke.
And yes, it was nighttime when I did it. Any thoughts?
Title: Re: Nighttime condition not working
Post by: X10 Pro on November 30, 2004, 12:24:49 PM
When you say everything broke do you mean the
macro wouldn't trigger any more? If you send
the file to ahpsupport@x10.com I'll take a look.
Title: Re: Nighttime condition not working
Post by: randy on November 30, 2004, 02:48:16 PM
Yes. Sorry. Guess that was a little dramatic. It's like it went
into a loop and wouldn't turn the light on or off. I saw lots
of powerline activity when the motion sensor was tripped
but nothing happened. When I took the nighttime
condition out, it all worked again.
Title: Re: Nighttime condition not working
Post by: randy on November 30, 2004, 02:49:42 PM
File on it's way...
Title: Re: Nighttime condition not working
Post by: jeff on December 08, 2004, 12:56:55 AM
Count me in on this too.  Mine is a little
more complicted as it is in an else but
this is pretty much the same probem.
Title: Re: Nighttime condition not working
Post by: rob on December 08, 2004, 08:43:19 PM
I have a light I only want to turn on via
sensor movement between dusk and 10pm. It's
only been 2 days and I haven't worked with
it much, but I'm convinced that the time
rule is not in effect...

Trigger Conditions: M15 on and The time is
between dusk and 10pm".
Title: Re: Nighttime condition not working
Post by: david k on April 18, 2005, 10:13:10 PM
Having same kind of problems.
Title: Re: Nighttime condition not working
Post by: dave w on May 02, 2005, 12:56:51 PM
This is old thread but I am having same
problems. My Dusk to Dawn triggers are not
working.

Any help here X10 Pro?
Title: Re: Nighttime condition not working
Post by: martin on May 02, 2005, 04:09:34 PM
Do you have another condition besides your
time interval condition? In my case, the
time interval condition must be the last one
for the macro to trigger correctly.
Title: Re: Nighttime condition not working
Post by: dave w on May 03, 2005, 02:53:14 PM
Martin,

I have one macro with only the Dusk to Dawn
conditional, and it is one of the probelms.
However I do have several other macros with
multiple conditions including Dusk to Dawn.
I will move the Dusk to Dawn conditions to
the end of the macro.
Thanks for the tip!
Title: Re: Nighttime condition not working
Post by: david k on May 06, 2005, 06:39:36 PM
STILL HAVING THESE KINDS OF PROBLEMS WITH
DAYLIGHT AND NIGHTIME CONDITIONS.

Is there any way to get this fixed???????
Title: Re: Nighttime condition not working
Post by: martin on May 06, 2005, 07:28:22 PM
First, try a time interval condition to see
if it works.
Title: Re: Nighttime condition not working
Post by: yvan on June 26, 2005, 12:05:37 PM
Time condition not working.
Is it possible that the smart macro time
stamp is set for 0-GMT and does not take
into account my time zone (EAST-4GMT)? By
offsetting it by +4 hours in the condition
wizard it works.
Title: Re: Nighttime condition not working
Post by: david k on August 27, 2005, 02:34:59 PM
I have found that if you save to interface,
time, nightime, daytime conditions will
work.  They do not seem to work in RUN from
PC mode.  So if you have a camera system
that you want to run only at night, you
have to cheat and write a bunch of macros
or set flags or something.

I guess AHP is not ever going to fix this
problem.
Title: Re: Nighttime condition not working
Post by: david k on December 18, 2005, 11:20:03 AM
Well, this is now a MORE than one year old
problem.  I bet you guys are proud!
Title: Re: Nighttime condition not working
Post by: matt on January 01, 2006, 09:42:04 PM
Add me to the problem list.  I used
SmartMacros for about 1 year and all was
PERFECT, including IF's and timers.  About
3 weeks ago I downloaded the latest version
of the software and now my timers are
erratic and I can't even manually control
lights from the PC anymore.  Any thoughts?