Something to Remember

[Dan Lawrence]

Something to remember: NEVER mix Lamp and Appliance Modules on the same Housecode/Unit.  The signals get mixed up, the lamp modules react,but the appliance module doesn't trigger.  The fix is you get to set up the Appliance Module with its own address and everything's peachy.  

[HA Dave]

Something to remember: NEVER mix Lamp and Appliance Modules on the same Housecode/Unit.  The signals get mixed up, the lamp modules react,but the appliance module doesn't trigger.  The fix is you get to set up the Appliance Module with its own address and everything's peachy.  

I'd never heard/read that before. Thank You Dan... a helpful from me.

[Dan Lawrence]

Thank you.

I found it out by accident.  My wife collects Nativities and one of them is a led lighted one of the Holy Family.  It's battery operated and a local electronics store supplied the proper power supply to use AC power instead of batteries.  I took the unit to the store, and one of their staffers figured the proper places to sotter the two wires (after cutting off the plug leads) and once that was done, it runs off AC, so next was the Appliance Module, which was given the same address as the other Nativities (which there are 5 of them)  B6.  First time the timer ran, 5 lit, the Appliance Module did not trigger unless I unplugged it and plugged it again.  So, the AP got reassigned to B12 and all my .ahx files got modified with the new module.

[JeffVolp]

That must be a quirk with AHP.  We've used appliance modules and lamp modules on the same house and unit codes for years.  The work fine together with ON and OFF commands.

Jeff

[-Bill- (of wgjohns.com)]

Thank you.

I found it out by accident.  My wife collects Nativities and one of them is a led lighted one of the Holy Family.  It's battery operated and a local electronics store supplied the proper power supply to use AC power instead of batteries.  I took the unit to the store, and one of their staffers figured the proper places to sotter the two wires (after cutting off the plug leads) and once that was done, it runs off AC, so next was the Appliance Module, which was given the same address as the other Nativities (which there are 5 of them)  B6.  First time the timer ran, 5 lit, the Appliance Module did not trigger unless I unplugged it and plugged it again.  So, the AP got reassigned to B12 and all my .ahx files got modified with the new module.

Do you have "Send on instead of bright 100%" checked in your AHP setup?

[Dan Lawrence]

No, and I only have 1 keypress (A5 OFF on a MC160 Controller) Macro and housecode B is not on the macro.   That could be the cause, but the Appliance Module involved is no longer on Address B5 (with the other Nativities) it's now on a new address of B12 by itself, the timer is the same as one for B5, so it turns on and off at the same time.