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Strange information in activity monitor
« on: April 07, 2007, 11:05:33 PM »

Can someone help me find the source of the strange information (see below) in the activity monitor. 
You will not that the Receive B Bright 5 % repeats every minute and six time every Minuit starting at 26 seconds.
What could be sending this signal???


1817 04/07/2007 2:23:26 pm Receive B Bright 5
1818 04/07/2007 2:23:27 pm Receive B Bright 5
1819 04/07/2007 2:23:28 pm Receive B Bright 5
1820 04/07/2007 2:23:29 pm Receive B Bright 5
1821 04/07/2007 2:23:29 pm Receive B Bright 5
1822 04/07/2007 2:23:30 pm Receive B Bright 5
1823 04/07/2007 2:24:26 pm Receive B Bright 5
1824 04/07/2007 2:24:27 pm Receive B Bright 5
1825 04/07/2007 2:24:28 pm Receive B Bright 5
1826 04/07/2007 2:24:29 pm Receive B Bright 5
1827 04/07/2007 2:24:29 pm Receive B Bright 5
1828 04/07/2007 2:24:30 pm Receive B Bright 5
1829 04/07/2007 2:25:26 pm Receive B Bright 5
1830 04/07/2007 2:25:27 pm Receive B Bright 5
1831 04/07/2007 2:25:28 pm Receive B Bright 5
1832 04/07/2007 2:25:29 pm Receive B Bright 5
1833 04/07/2007 2:25:29 pm Receive B Bright 5
1834 04/07/2007 2:25:30 pm Receive B Bright 5
1835 04/07/2007 2:26:26 pm Receive B Bright 5
1836 04/07/2007 2:26:27 pm Receive B Bright 5
1837 04/07/2007 2:26:28 pm Receive B Bright 5
1838 04/07/2007 2:26:29 pm Receive B Bright 5
1839 04/07/2007 2:26:29 pm Receive B Bright 5
1840 04/07/2007 2:26:30 pm Receive B Bright 5
1841 04/07/2007 2:27:26 pm Receive B Bright 5
1842 04/07/2007 2:27:27 pm Receive B Bright 5
1843 04/07/2007 2:27:28 pm Receive B Bright 5
1844 04/07/2007 2:27:29 pm Receive B Bright 5
1845 04/07/2007 2:27:29 pm Receive B Bright 5
1846 04/07/2007 2:27:30 pm Receive B Bright 5
1847 04/07/2007 2:28:26 pm Receive B Bright 5
1848 04/07/2007 2:28:27 pm
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Re: Strange information in activity monitor
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2007, 11:32:53 PM »

Don't have a remote sitting around somewhere with something pressing down on the button?  Or maybe a remote with a button stuck down?

It's happened before!  Someone had one in a packing box with the batteries in it and couldn't figure out where these commands were comming from until they realized they had jostled the box and something fell on the remote and was holding a button down!
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Re: Strange information in activity monitor
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2007, 10:07:58 AM »

On some of the older manual controllers, the keypad would fail in a way that would cause the controller to send out a continuous stream of commands.

Also, do you happen to have a phase coupler or other type of repeater?  Sometimes they get confused, and see an X10 command, repeat it, see their own repeat, re-repeat it again, see their own repeated repeat, re-re-repeat it again, etc.
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Re: Strange information in activity monitor
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2007, 04:03:31 PM »

The fact that the signal occurs only 6 times and then doesn't repeat again until a minute later would seem to eliminate a stuck key on a remote from consideration.  I'd suspect it is rather due to some hangup in the CM15A.

Try clearing the EEPROM memory.  If  that doesn't help, unplug the CM15A, remove the batteries (one will do since they're all in series), replace the battery and plug up again.

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