A2 signal from macro fires A1!!

[misterbeefy]

OK, this is TOTALLY weird! I have a macro that turns off my formal living room lights every 5 minutes. They are set to House/unit code A2. I have a rather large house, so I have a TM751 to help relay RF signals from my remotes. When it's plugged in, my family room lamp that is on A1 turns off every 5 mins when the macro fires. What gives?? It was working fine, but I just updated AHP to the latest version so I could install it on my Windows 7 PC. FYI, I'm also getting the flood of traffic for M unknown A00TV A00TV in my activity monitor as well. Thanks in advance for any help!

[anthonylavado]

1) Have you tried making a new ActiveHome file (AHX) and setting up just that macro to check?
2) Do you have any cameras or security modules in your set up?

[misterbeefy]

1. Haven't tried creating a new macro because that one took so long and is so big!
2. Yes, I have both security and cameras. The main security controller isn't plugged in, but some door/window sensors still are.

[Dan Lawrence]

Do us a favor: Post the contents of the macro, so we can see what's going on and provide a solution.

[misterbeefy]

Do us a favor: Post the contents of the macro, so we can see what's going on and provide a solution.

It's A2 Off
Wait 5 minutes

I repeat this for a total of 55 minutes, in addition to timer job which fires the macro every hour, on the hour, which makes it run every 5 minutes 24/7.

[Brandt]

This is usually due to noise on the line 'morphing' the x10 signal. I have an XPT type switch that when I turn on the outdoor 'party lights' sometimes the security light will come on instead and it is only one unit code difference.

[Dan Lawrence]

OK, this is TOTALLY weird! I have a macro that turns off my formal living room lights every 5 minutes. They are set to House/unit code A2. I have a rather large house, so I have a TM751 to help relay RF signals from my remotes. When it's plugged in, my family room lamp that is on A1 turns off every 5 mins when the macro fires. What gives?? It was working fine, but I just updated AHP to the latest version so I could install it on my Windows 7 PC. FYI, I'm also getting the flood of traffic for M unknown A00TV A00TV in my activity monitor as well. Thanks in advance for any help!

Just a question.  WHY do you have a macro that kills lights every 5 minutes?   Once the lights are off, they stay off.  My single keypress macro turns off lights in 3 housecodes and they stay off until either timer triggered or turned on locally by SS13's.

[misterbeefy]

Just a question.  WHY do you have a macro that kills lights every 5 minutes?   Once the lights are off, they stay off.  My single keypress macro turns off lights in 3 housecodes and they stay off until either timer triggered or turned on locally by SS13's.

Hehe, this is an easy question to answer I have 4 kids, 3 still at home, that don't know how to turn the lights off! This particular switch has 2 chandeliers on it with 6 - 20w bulbs each. That's 240 watts getting sucked down whenever they're on. Very rarely is there a need of light in this room for more than 5 minutes, as it's connected to the kitchen and formal dining room in an open floor-plan,  and the ambient light trickles through. This is to try to cut down on my 5-600 dollar a month electric bill.

[dave w]

This is to try to cut down on my 5-600 dollar a month electric bill.

Gasp!

[Dan Lawrence]

Another question:  Where are you located?  A 5-600 dollar a month electric bill?  GASP!!!   


Now I understand why the every 5 minutes.  It's a shame X10 doesn't make a treadle switch.  If they did, you could assign a house and unit code to it and have it control the 2 lights.  When the kids leave the room, they walk over the switch (under the rug?) and the lights go out.

All seriousness aside, try making the interval 10 minutes and see what happens.   I'm not a macro expert, but I believe one macro can call another, so you could brake your macro into 2 or 3, all called by the first one.   

[hawk1]

Not to be funny or anything but $500?  Seriously, take the light bulbs out!!!   

[HA Dave]

Not to sound... morbid.. but lights are generally a tiny portion of an electric bill.

The cost of electric... is mostly regulatory. The only way to reduce the cost in both the short and the long term... is to replace the people that regulate your electric use.

[dave w]

The cost of electric... is mostly regulatory. The only way to reduce the cost in both the short and the long term... is to replace the people that regulate your electric use.

I can see November 2 from my living room.

[Dan Lawrence]

The cost of electric... is mostly regulatory. The only way to reduce the cost in both the short and the long term... is to replace the people that regulate your electric use.

I can see November 2 from my living room.

WOW!!!   Do you have access to a Way-Bak Machine?   

[pconroy]

Another question:  Where are you located?  A 5-600 dollar a month electric bill?  GASP!!!   

My first house, in TX, was all electric.  I can certainly see how a monthly bill could hit that. Especially if I had my family of 5 back then.

Now, in CO, I'm electric and natural gas.
In the depth of winter, a $450 total utility bill isn't out of the question.