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dwight

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Dimming Control Funny Stuff
« on: April 27, 2006, 08:19:15 AM »

I have had an X10 system now for about 8 or 10 years and have upgraded to the CM-15 USB system.  Everything was working fine until recently my timed dim settings don't set properly at initial turn on.  They dim to 0% instead of what I have set.  When I try it manually sometimes it dims correctly - sometimes I have to turn it off and on again and it is affecting all of my lights.  I reset my CM-15 even trying the thumping chest method and even tried a new CM15 with the same results.  Every once in a while when I dim something manually, when I let go of the slider it goes back to 100% and won't stay dimmed.  I also reloaded my X10 program.  Any ideas on what is going on?  Thanks.
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Re: Dimming Control Funny Stuff
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2006, 11:29:44 PM »

what does your old system still consist of with the new CM15A now? repeaters?
guessing range cause CM15A doesn't transmit as far as the CM11A/RR501 did?
any TM751's in the setup?
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Re: Dimming Control Funny Stuff
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2006, 03:34:15 PM »

dwight Since you've been using X10 for awhile and every thing was working ok there are a couple of things which could have happened!
1: You have a module configured incorrectly in AHP easy to do. ( I removed a tm751 but forgot to tell AHP that I replaced it with a regular module took a week to figure that one out! :-[ )
2: Your AHP ahx file has become corrupt (Hard to spot) usually happens right after an update. This is the one I'm thinking is the cause. :(  If you have a backup AHX file load it and see if you experiance the same problems. If you don't have a backup you'll have to rebuild your existing one.reverting back to the last update usualy won't fix the corrupt ahx file.
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Re: Dimming Control Funny Stuff
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2006, 12:54:28 PM »

I just started having the same problem with dimming lights. What was added was a 4826B Repeater. I unplug the repeater and everything seems to go back to normal. Seems like 3 seconds after the command is issued, it is resent by the repeater messing up the AHP software. Does anyone know of a way to disable the repeater portion of the 4826B?
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