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[Laura]

Hi ...

I am a Spanish girl (sorry for my English) new to the forum and also in the X10 world, in my language and my country I find information about x10 and need help ...

I'm trying to create lighting scenes for each button and select the SS13A home ... but not how.

Please can someone explain me step by step how to create scenes.

Alco want something like this.

Button 1 ON: turn lights A5 60%
Button 2 ON: turn on lights to 20% A5

As I create this macro to each button? ... In the home is not listed select the module SS13A.


Thank you very much everybody!

Laura

[bitman]

Hi Laura.

There are better x10 people in here than I but I'll try to help.

What you want to do is, in Active Home create macros for each of the scene settings you want with successive unit trigger codes such as B1,B2,B3,B4. (They can be any house and unit code, just successive as that is how the ss13a works). Then using the ss13a manual, set the ss13a to trigger those macros set at the 4 successive trigger codes with the 4 ss13a buttons.

Each button will trigger one of 4 macros that set up the scenes.

:Ron

[Laura]

Thanks for your help Ron

Not exactly what you say, please can take a simple example of a button with a scene? and so I do like the idea of a macro program.
I would appreciate it, not where to begin.


Thank you,

[HA Dave]

Not exactly what you say, please can take a simple example of a button with a scene? and so I do like the idea of a macro program.
I would appreciate it, not where to begin.

You will have to use you AHP software to create macros. The macros are (of course) a set of instructions for your lights that are programmed into the CM15A interface.

Say the light you want to control has a house/unit code of "D1". And you want to be able to turn the light on at 20 brightness (80% dim). You may want to set your SS13A to House code "C" (buttons 1-3).

Then is AHP create a room. In that room add the "D1" light you want to control.
Create a macro (place it in the same room) have the macros trigger be "C1".
The instructions for that macro is turn "D1" light ON,
Delay for 1 second,
dim "D1" to 20% brightness.

Here:  http://forums.x10.com/index.php?board=103.0  is a link for other "user created" macros.

[Laura]

Thanks!! works! yuhuuuu!

One more question .... in SS13A, there are three buttons with ON and OFF and the fourth button is Bright.

I scheduled the case.

Button 1  ON Trigger F1
Button 2  ON Trigger F2
Button 3  ON Trigger F3

No OFF how to program the buttons .... would F4, F5 and F6???

Thank you!

[HA Dave]

No OFF how to program the buttons .... would F4, F5 and F6???

It is an interesting question. In a macro a "trigger" can be the On.. or the Off.. (or even a dim or bright). So you can easily create 3 more macros (F1 off, F2 off, and F3 off. All three could be an off. Or you could... select the F1 off to be [the macro trigger for] off... and the other two buttons could be even more dim macros buttons. And then... of course you still have the forth dim/bright button.