I just did a couple tests to see what would & would not work when the CM15A is unplugged (as in a power failure) but the PC is still powered. I did these tests on 2 separate CM15As & PCs and seen the same results.
The CM15A still receives RF signals from the DS10A & a palmpad... no problem.
The DS10A was able to trigger an OnAlert security macro and send an email to my phone. (Good
helpful idea
Dave).
However, the palmpad did not send the email. You can see it triggering the macro on AHP, but it didn't execute as expected. An observation I seen a while back (
Re: Macros quit after two months) about triggering a macro from an RF remote is this:
1) If the macro is stored in the interface, you DO NOT need to transceive the house code of the RF source to trigger & execute the macro.
2) If the macro is run from the PC, you DO need to transceive the house code of the RF source to trigger & execute the macro.
With an email being a must run from PC macro, that is why it didn't execute. There is obviously something different about the security macro to make it work (the house code the DS10A appeared on was NOT transceived).
If someone does a similar test and sees different results, I'd like to here about them.
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Puck edit: added reference post link.]