mabergin,
As
Puck suggested -
- Move your yard barn switch and second transceiver to address A3 to prevent the dusk/dawn output from your A1 motion sensor from triggering it (BTW - nice catch Puck).
- Try experimenting with only one transceiver. Front of house (near motion sensor)/ rear of house (near garage)
I'm still trying to get a handle on your configuration:
I have a active eye sensor in the front of my house.I wanted it to controll my porch light,my walk light and two lights on the front of my garage.My garage is attached to my house next to my living room.If I put the rr501 transceiver in the living room next to the garage the porch light and the walk light will come on when motion is detected but the lights on the garage won't come on.If I put the transceiver in the garage the garage lights will come on and the porch light and walk light will not.I can turn them all on by remote control regardless of where the transceiver is.
The description above really sounds like a phase problem. Your RR501 should transceive the RF signal from the motion sensor and broadcast the commands over all of the power lines in your house. By moving the RR501 you moved over to the other power line phase and your garage lights began working (and porch light stopped).
- When you say you can turn them all on by remote control, what device are you using? A plug in power line controller or a wireless remote (palm pad RF)? If you are using a "wired controller" it may have more power than the RR501 (which allows it to reach all your devices). If you are using a RF controller, it may have more RF power than your motion sensor but that should not make a difference (unless you had more than one transceiver). Your motion sensor signals are reaching the RR501. The RR501 simply can dive the entire power line
- Did you have the second transceiver connected at this time?
- Do you have a CM15a controller?
Tried turning dryer on.I still have same problem.I have 2 transceivers in the house.One is on the backside of house and it is set at a2.It is for my flood light on my yardbarn and my back porch light.
On the front side of my house I have a transceiver and it is set for A1.It is for my walk light,porch light and front garage lights.Could this set up be wrong?
When the delay shut off my front lights tonight it turned on my back floodlight on my yardbarn.Could I get another transceiver to take care of the front light problem?Also my floodlight will not shutoff.I have to shut it off with remote.I am beginning to wonder if its worth it.
You should never place two transceivers on the same house code ("A" in your case). This configuration my really be complicating things for you due to intermittent collisions between the two devices (nothing gets through). The RR501 is a pretty decent RF range. If you find a location where a sensor can't reach the RR501, install a second transceiver on a different house code ("B" for example) and move your sensor to that.
When you speak of the delay for the front lights - are we talking about a motion sensor delay or a macro delay in a CM15a.
Your PR511 floodlight did not shut off because the motion sensor "commanded it on" with the dusk/dawn output (
Puck's post). The delay programmed into the PR511 only applies to it's motion activated turn on. If you command it on it will stay on until you command it off.
It looks like
Dan Lawrence has posted since I started this. We all appear to be in agreement - two transceivers on the same house code = BAD.
We are trying to help here. It may take you some time to separate out all the variables. Please start by eliminating the second transceiver. Things may become much clearer.
