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Tuicemen:
julian: I just tried a variation of this and
flags are definetly not being set by AHP . I
as well as others reported this in the beta.

julian:
Well, I reinstalled everything from scratch
on two computers - one running XP Home, the
other one Win2000 Professional. I rebuilt my
AHX file with all 22 modules, 3 cameras, 6
motion sensors, a few timers and macros, and
I still get the same results. I have a couple
of macros where I use flags because I dim the
lights and even those are flaky - they run OK
for a while and all of a sudden one of the
macros will start ignoring the flags and
start all over... I am running out of ideas.
Hopefully X10 will shed some light on the
smart macros issue - it seems to be the only
major problem left in AHP.

JimC:
Julian,

This is what I have found trying to set
flags for use with the video macro. It
appears that flags can only be set from
macros stored in the interface. As all of
the video record functions can only be run
from the PC this causes the problem with
setting flags. What I have done that seems
to work is to create two macros. One of the
macros contains all of the video record
functions and the other is used for setting
the flags. It looks something like this….
The first macro (the one triggered by the
motion sensor) contains one else function
and looks like this
First macro = Trigger condition A14 on and
flag status 3 on > Turn floor lamp on ( I
just used the floor lamp as a place holder
so this portion of the macro would have
something to do) > ELSE > set flag 3 > turn
place holder cam on (I8) > wait one minute
> clear flag 3

The macro for the camera place holder (I8)
looks like this.
Turn camera on (B2) > start video record >
wait 1 minute >stop video record.

If you need this explained more clearly let
me know.

JimC:
Julian,

I should have mentioned that I used a HR12A
remote to simulate the motion sensor.
Pressing the A14 button started the record
function and repeatedly pressing the A14 on
button did not cause it to crash. When I
was testing it I did not include a flag
clear command so that I could check to see
if the flag was setting. And every time I
tried it the flag did set.

Hope this is helpful.  It would be so much
easier if X10 would fix the problem and no
work arounds were needed.

Good luck

julian:
I went back to using the VCR Commander 2 and
the good ol' VHS tape! The video quality is
better and I can download to PC using the
MiniDV pass-through function. AND I get the
sound too! I hope they fix the flags issue
though...
I also noticed that my CM15A loses RF range
(significantly) when the USB cable is plugged
in.

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