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[racvt]

OK,  here is my problem,  I installed the flood light with camera along with a chime,  but it seems to be over sensitive and starts to record and chime at even a wasp!!  Is there an adjustment for this?  Also,  the lights seem to come on during the day,  not always, but I can not tell when or why,  and then they do not go out.  When it works it seems nice,  but I have been playing around with this now for hours and it has rec, chimed and lights on 3 times in the last hour with no reason, other than a wasp as I said.  I did have an extra sensor near this so the chimes would go off if someone walk to the door and for whatever reason the cam did not see it.  But I since took to batteries out and still lights on during the day and rec to just a bug.  Any help?? Please....  I do not know what to do next,  I have it in auto for cam,  and it works if lights do not stay on,  but if the lights come one then the cam never shuts off,  not even after the 5 min set time delay???  Do I have a defective unit or are these just not vary goo units.  this is my first try with X10 stuff???

Thanks for any help here....

[fuzz54]

X10 macros and products can be buggy.  It depends on your house wiring, distance to your transciever and how complicated your macros are.  In general if I want to do several things with a macro on the same motion sensor trigger then I break the Macro into several different macros all with the same trigger.  Having a single macro doing many different things at once on the same trigger can mess things up sometimes.  Also, you could be getting noise in your house wiring on the X10 address code that you assigned the floodlight/camera/motion sensor to.  Try changing to a different code or even open up the activity log in AH Pro and see what codes are getting triggered.  In my house in particular I get the A5 code triggered all the time even though none of my devices use that code so I stay away from A5 for any of my devices.  Motion sensors can be very sensitive if they are seeing a moving environment with trees, cars, grass, bees, or anything that moves.  Try to put your motion sensors pointing at a static object where the motion sensor will only be tripped if someone walks between the sensor and the static object.  For me, I tried having a motion sensor outside to sound a doorbell chime, but it was chiming at random times like the problem you are having.  So I put the motion sensor between my screen door and main door so that the chime goes off whenever anyone opens my screen door and the false chime problem went away.  Another solution is to have two motion sensors for your floodlight and only activate the floodlight when both sensors are active.  This would require some kind of nested smart macro that is triggered by one motion sensor and then is programmed to look at the other motion sensor or device it controls to see if it is on before it activates the floodlight.

[racvt]

X10 macros and products can be buggy.  It depends on your house wiring, distance to your transciever and how complicated your macros are.  In general if I want to do several things with a macro on the same motion sensor trigger then I break the Macro into several different macros all with the same trigger.  Having a single macro doing many different things at once on the same trigger can mess things up sometimes.  Also, you could be getting noise in your house wiring on the X10 address code that you assigned the floodlight/camera/motion sensor to.  Try changing to a different code or even open up the activity log in AH Pro and see what codes are getting triggered.  In my house in particular I get the A5 code triggered all the time even though none of my devices use that code so I stay away from A5 for any of my devices.  Motion sensors can be very sensitive if they are seeing a moving environment with trees, cars, grass, bees, or anything that moves.  Try to put your motion sensors pointing at a static object where the motion sensor will only be tripped if someone walks between the sensor and the static object.  For me, I tried having a motion sensor outside to sound a doorbell chime, but it was chiming at random times like the problem you are having.  So I put the motion sensor between my screen door and main door so that the chime goes off whenever anyone opens my screen door and the false chime problem went away.  Another solution is to have two motion sensors for your floodlight and only activate the floodlight when both sensors are active.  This would require some kind of nested smart macro that is triggered by one motion sensor and then is programmed to look at the other motion sensor or device it controls to see if it is on before it activates the floodlight.

Thank you for the help.  I did as you stated,  changed my flood cam from A1 to C3,  left other 3 sensors on A1,  now the lights and camera on the flood cam respond as expected.  Still get a few false triggers during the sunny part of the day,  but the lights do not come on!!  All is working well,  and tech support gave me an RMA number as they figured it was defective.  Now,  I wish I could have used the flood cam to trigger my chimes,  but that would now required another transciver I think,  unless I go to A2, or A3 on the cam and see if the triggers work without the lights coming on.  But right now I have enough sensors triggering my chimes and turing on other lights, so I know when someone or something is near.  At the barn down the driveway I had to enclose the sensor on the driveway as the sun was killing me with false triggers,  A plastic cup large enough to fit the sensor in cut on the side worked great,  shades the top and avoids the cat,  but get all cars and people from the sides.  Now if I can just figure out how to get the floodcam to stop false triggers during the sun times,  but is is better after I added 1 piece of scotch tape across the sensor,  still works great at night and only a few false triggers dueing the day... we will see.  so far it is all working better....

[immyfish]

Some good ideas on how to make this crap work the way it's supposed to. Thanks for sharing! Unbelievable - the lengths we have to go through to get this to work the way it's supposed to!