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[Dave4720]

I have written about X10 not being junk when it doesn’t work, and it’s probably a condition that needs to be solved.  I still believe that, but I’m still irked that one really doesn’t know how these X10 things work and interact until you actually try to do something.

I have a DS7000 security system that I am doing some tabletop testing before I install the system.

I have the DS7000 set to L-3.  L-3 is the local ceiling light in the room that the console is located, so it flashes L-3 when armed.  Since the HC is ‘L’, the AllLightsOn and AllUnitsOff codes it sends when tripped will flash all my house lights.

Ok, works fine.

BUT … I have discovered that the DS7000 receiver is acting like a RR501 and receiving ALL ‘L’ RF codes and transmitting them onto the AC line.  This is in conflict with my V572 Transceiver which is also receiving the ‘L’ RF codes and transmitting them onto the AC line via a XTB-IIR.  So I am getting BSCs and command failures because TWO things are trying to transmit AC codes at the same time.

My workaround thoughts were to disable the V572 Transceiver on the ‘L’ codes, and let the DS7000 be my ‘L’ receiver as well as the security system.  I don’t like that because why do I have this awesome receiver, but have to use the DS7000 for HC ‘L’.

I’d rather the DS7000 just transmit out the necessary security related commands, not receive non-security HC transmissions and transmit them to the AC line as well.

Any thoughts on another workaround or solution?


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Update:  Another issue.

Nothing "comes out" of the DS7000 but AllLightsOn and AllUnitsOff commands.  I’d like to run a macro to do other stuff, but I don’t know what to use as a trigger.

Any ideas or mods to trigger a macro from an alarm condition or “capture” an AllLightsOn or AllUnitsOff ?


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Update: Timing Won’t Work

I rigged up a method to test the system design idea with a manual trigger, and I can’t send much of anything in-between the AllLightsOn and AllUnitsOff commands without command timing crashes.

It’s nice to flash the lights DS7000, but basically one can’t do anything else via X10 because of the X10 data traffic.

[Knightrider]

Tuicemen created a small app that triggers on the "all" codes, which I think has since been absorbed into PC Companion.

Also, BVC listeners can react on the "all" codes.

[spam4us]

You can buy an x10 filter on ebay that will block the transmit of the all lights on/off from going over the powerline.  The filter plugs into the wall and the ds7000 plugs into the filter.

See page 2 on this link for an explanation on how to set off a window sensor by connecting it to a UM506. 
http://forums.x10.com/index.php?topic=13487.0

the DS10A can be defined to the VF572 (and not the ds7000) & then use it to trigger a macro.
Search ebay for x10 filter.

[Brian H]

First the V572 will not process DS10 codes. The V572RF32 will map a security code to a standard X10 code.

Putting on a filter will stop the All Lights On and All units Off commands but would also stop the lights from flashing on a alarm trigger or going on for the one minute exit time when armed.