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[drakethib]

makes no freaking sense

Could your House code setting have been reset? Is the CM15A still reacting, by hearing and/or sending to the now non-working modules?

Dave,

Whats weird is that the CM15a will turn the swicthes off, but not on.  Is the off signal stronger?

I thought maybe it was the phase, by the mini timer proved that worng, I have deleted the software and installed an older verision. (3.310).

I wish there was another x10 software to try, this all started all of a sudden. The pribekm with the mini timer is it only allows for one /on/off per house code per day

[Noam]

To determine if they are SoftStart, try this test with your lamps:
Use the Mini controller to turn them on, and watch the lights.
If they come on instantly at full brightness, they are NON-SoftStart.
If they take about 2 seconds, and dim up slowly, they ARE Soft Start.

The non-SoftStart modules can't understand or respond to the Extended Dim commands. Since version 3.302 (January 2011), the "Lamps" category in AHP is for the newer, SoftStart modules, and the :Old Lamps - No SoftStart" category is for the older, non-SoftStart ones.

If your lamps are not SoftStart, you need to edit the module, change the category to the "old lamps" one, and then re-select the correct module type.

[Brian H]

The mini timer send plain old X10 On and Off commands.
If the CM15A and AHP think a module is Soft Start it maybe sending Extended X10 commands the old style switches do not respond to.

[dave w]

I plugged a mini timer into the same outlet that the cm15a is plugged in, the mini timer is able to turn the lights on and off while the cm15a is not able to turn them on.
makes no freaking sense

It might IF you upgraded AHP but have not yet re-defined all you light controllers as "SoftStart" or Old Lamp.
The good news is, if the mini timer can control everything from same outlet as CM15A, then it probably isn't noise.

[drakethib]

Holy cow I may have figured it out, the soft start/ non-soft start is kind of bass ackawards the way it is set in my x-10.

Will now soon.

[dave w]

All mine are older soft start modules.

Older SoftStart modules?

OK so all your lights "ramp up" and "ramp down" when you tap the local switch and you can dim from the local switch, right? If so, all your Lamp Modules needs to be identified (under "Modules" on left  side of screen) "Lamp"  not "Older Lamps (No SoftStart)" .

[drakethib]

Spoke to soon.

Now all lights will turn on using AHP but will not work with Macros.


Dang it.

This is eating my lunch.

Dave advise heard, tried, and no luck.

[Dan Lawrence]

Spoke to soon.

Now all lights will turn on using AHP but will not work with Macros.


Dang it.

This is eating my lunch.

Dave advise heard, tried, and no luck.

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You might have to rebuild your macros,  and did you upload to the CM15A?

[drakethib]

Spoke to soon.

Now all lights will turn on using AHP but will not work with Macros.


Dang it.

This is eating my lunch.

Dave advise heard, tried, and no luck.






Dan. Yes Sir. Rebuilt some of the macros, wondering if I should just wipe them all and start over

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You might have to rebuild your macros,  and did you upload to the CM15A?

[Noam]

Spoke to soon.

Now all lights will turn on using AHP but will not work with Macros.

There is an option in the AHP settings (in the macro section, I think) to issue "on" in place of "Bright 100%".
You might want to try that.

What is the Activity Monitor showing when you are running the macros?

[drakethib]

Spoke to soon.

Now all lights will turn on using AHP but will not work with Macros.

There is an option in the AHP settings (in the macro section, I think) to issue "on" in place of "Bright 100%".
You might want to try that.

What is the Activity Monitor showing when you are running the macros?

Not sure what you mean by activity moniotr, I do not when the macor executes, AHP shows the lights on, but they are not on.

[Brian H]

You may want to look at Tools; Preferences; Macro Options and see if the On in place of Bright 100% is checked off. As Noam mentioned.

[dave w]

Not sure what you mean by activity moniotr,

Gee whiz, Under "Tools"/ "Activity Monitor" or Press the "F2" key....Surprise!!

[drakethib]

Not sure what you mean by activity moniotr,

Gee whiz, Under "Tools"/ "Activity Monitor" or Press the "F2" key....Surprise!!

Sorry Guys, I am not the guru that you are. Just trying to figure this out.

[drakethib]

FYI, all is working according to AHP.

I see nothing showing an error in the log