To answer Steve RF question “ some are
running for months without any problems ….”
It’s not how many macros, lights or motion
control you have, it the complexity of the
macros that can cause problem. I only had 3
light and 3 motion on my system during test:
2 motions controlling the stairs lights
(top and Bottom)
1 motion for the bathroom.
The stair macros would use dim or bright to
the light and during night time would else
turn control the kitchen light using
Dim/Bright command.
The bathroom light else is using Dim/Bright
command.
I else had a recovery macros using the
commands from the motion photocell: in the
event the light where manually turn off.
This set up generate a large number of
commands on the power line and RF, unless
the CM15a (or RR501, V572) has a large
buffer to store more than 1 RF command, the
macros will not work properly.
Usually if I triggered the stairs motion
(stairs light and Kitchen light On with
multiple Bright commands) and then trigger
the bathroom motion within 10 seconds, the
CM15a would fail and loose the clock( it
takes more than 10 seconds to send all
those Bright/Dim on the power line).
With the 1132CU I eliminate the crashes and
loss of clock, but to achieve the
performance I wanted I had to replace the
wall switches with “Preset-Dim” switches to
reduce traffic on the power line.
In a nut shell if you keep you macros
simple and minimize traffic on the power
line ad RF signals, it will probably work
flawless.
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