Erratic Control? How About "OUT OF CONTROL?!?"

[Boiler]

Sorry I thumb fingered the delays

The macro I used executed a 1 second delay to start, turned on A12, delayed 30 seconds, and then turned off A12.

Should be:

The macro I used executed a 1 second delay to start, turned on A12, delayed 10 seconds, and then turned off A12

[TakeTheActive]

Sorry I thumb fingered the delays

That's what the MODIFY Button (in the top right corner) is for.

Besides correcting the "thumb fingered" typo, I also ' took the liberty ' of "TTA-formatting " your reply, both, IMHO, to improve readability and to demonstrate (to you) the options that are available. Please - use what you like, remove / delete what you don't.

Thanks for your patience and perseverance with B's_Place!

We can always use more HELPERS and fewer RANTERS. 

[hphandyman]

Hi all

Just a few tricks I have found in X10 commands that might help in the problems you are seeing.

Individual X10 commands take almost 1 second to be transmitted via the power line.  This is very important!  If you have multiple things going off and on in rapid succession and or multiple hits from motion detectors the power lines will become overloaded with X10 signals very quickly.

ie: in my macros, I always use one or two seconds of delay between every event;
Simple example; Motion turns on camera and light for 2 minutes
if G1 (front motion)
J1 ON (Front Camera)
DELAY 1 Second
C1 ON (Front light)
DELAY 2 minutes
J1 OFF
DELAY 2 Second
C1 OFF

Yes I get the blue screen sometimes when too many thing happen at the same time, but delays help.