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[ultradianguy]

Hi -
I recently purchased AHP.  I'm experiencing problems that seem to come up here a lot but it's not clear if people eventually solved them or not.

 I tried to do something that others have also mentioned.  I have an Active Eye motion sensor near front door (B14).  I want it to ring a chime when motion detected, but then be ignored for a couple minutes.  I set as conditionals a) time within a certain range (9am -9 pm), and flag 2 is clear.

 1) macro triggers on B14 on if flag 2 is off, turns on chime (G15), sets flag.  Delay 2 minute, clear flag.
 As an alternative, I tried creating a dummy module on the monitored house code (H1) that is turned on after the chime, then turned off after 2 min - instead of using a flag.  In that case, macro condition is that H1 is off.  Also tried using B14 off from the activeeye to turn off H1.

In all cases, here's what I found:

Here's the weird part - the first time I wrote the code - it worked as expected - if I used a remote to send B14, chime would ring.  But after a few times, it stopped working.  I deleted macro, rewrote using a different method (ie changed from flag to dummy module) and it worked again - then it stopped working, too!  The exact same code worked at first, then didn't.

Here are things I've worked through to try and solve:

1) I can ring chime by RF signal to G15 on (direct to chime) - so RF is picked up and chime works.
2) I can ring chime by clicking the button that says Play Macro.  So macro code itself works.
3)  Macro is downloaded to CM15 - not running from AHP.
4) I made sure macro was not in same room as sensor or chime in AHP.
5) Sensor and chime are on different house codes.
6) At one point, I tried playing with changing the monitored housecode to the same as the sensor housecode - again, seemed to fix things, then stopped working. It's almost as if any change to the macro code corrects it, then it goes bad again.
7) Also tried clearing and completely resetting CM15 (unplug, remove batteries)

When sensor is triggered, the activity monitor reports:
Receive RF B14 On
Receive RF B14 On
Receive B14 (Doorbell sensor)
Receive B On (Doorbell sensor)
Macro G15
Macro G On

But it doesn't ring.  If I use a palmpad to send B14 On - same problem as from sensor.

Help! Does anyone have a suggestion? Do I have a bad CM15?  I just purchased a couple weeks ago so I assume I have recent versions of hardware and software.

Thanks,
Michael

[steven r]

In case you're still dealing with this problem, has the latest software update (v3.204) made any difference?

I haven't checked the latest software to see if it was fixed but previous versions didn't prompt for you to download to the CM15A after deleting modules. This could result in "ghost modules" still being there coming back to haunt you.

[JMac]

I had a somewhat similar situation with a Hawkeye set to dim a bathroom light for a night light.  It would work fine when macro was run from the computer.  I unplugged a radio shack 61-2663R wireless remote control module (which I assume is equivalent to the TM751), and the macro has worked normally (for the most part) since.  The repeat signals from the TM751 (or its equivalent) definately caused problems with my macro for sure.