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[LucidLight]

No, nothing I can see, or associate with any other power draw. A few times I have had them go off only minutes apart. But I have also had them go off when I am the only one up late at night.

[LucidLight]

Double Post.

[dave w]

No, nothing I can see, or associate with any other power draw.

Then IMHO it probably isn't caused by a dip in power. New "Smartmeter" installs by the power company is proving to be yet another nemisis to X10. Have they changed your meter? Otherwise I would replace one unit and see if things improve.

[LucidLight]

I have swapped out the 2 kitchen x10 lights with 2 from another part of the house. The x10 function was not really being taken advantage of where the were before. So far after a day and a half, that has seemed to solved the issue. If the old ones were going bad, it explains why they keep turning off more and more frequently over the past 6 months.

[LucidLight]

Well after it looked like it was solved. I noticed that I had not changed the housecode or ID back to the normal kitchen ones. Once I did, the problem resurfaced quickly. I had previously changed the housecode from H to I in troubleshooting, and that did not fix it. This time I changed the housecode to J and all the rest of my x10 devices to J as well. That seemed to fix it. BUT IT IS BACK AGAIN! First it started by turning on the light, now it is turning them off again too. I am about to pull my hair out and use the damn switch for a shotgun target. Also from what I can tell I don't have a smartmeter, but I need to confirm this with the power company.

[dave w]

Well after it looked like it was solved. I noticed that I had not changed the housecode or ID back to the normal kitchen ones. Once I did, the problem resurfaced quickly. I had previously changed the housecode from H to I in troubleshooting, and that did not fix it. This time I changed the housecode to J and all the rest of my x10 devices to J as well. That seemed to fix it. BUT IT IS BACK AGAIN! First it started by turning on the light, now it is turning them off again too. I am about to pull my hair out and use the damn switch for a shotgun target. Also from what I can tell I don't have a smartmeter, but I need to confirm this with the power company.

This doesn't track the standard X10 problems/symptoms/solutions.    I think you have a Smart Meter (does it have a digital display?), or your kids/wife/neighbor etc. is playing tricks on you. You don't hear anyone snickering when the lights change state, do you?

[dhouston]

Where are you located? What power company?

[LucidLight]

No kids, no wife, and roommate is the one it is pissing off the most when she is cooking. The power company is JEA and the meter is a Schlumberger Centron CL200 240v 3W Type C1SC 30TA. I does have a digital display. I did not see any install date or any date on it.

[dhouston]

That seems to qualify as a Smart Meter but, according to this page...

• http://www.solarhome.org/itroncentrondigitalmetertypec1sfm2s240vcl200remfg.aspx

it uses ZigBee to communicate with its data aggregator (Gate Collector). The ones causing the most problems are using powerline communications for that.

[LucidLight]

Anything that can be done about smartmeter interference?

[dhouston]

I have swapped out the 2 kitchen x10 lights with 2 from another part of the house.

Exactly what did you swap? lights? switches?

Do you have other X10 switches or modules? Are they affected?