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garyb31
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Posted: September 23 2007 at 15:41 | IP Logged Quote garyb31
Hello. I have hit a mental road block in my attempt to use power home for my lighting. Due to the way I am building my house (post and beam) I have decided to do something different with the lighting. all of the light circuits go from the breaker box to a panel right next to the to breaker box where all of the x10 light switches are. from there the load wires are ran to the lights. This was done to reduce the amount of wiring ran through the house and reduce the need to hide it. Where there would normally be light switches in the rooms I have placed the x10 wireless light switches with 4 buttons. I have power home running on a pc with a w800rf32a for receiving the rf x10 signals and a cm11a for sending over the powerline. I need to write a formula that when power home receives m1 on from w800rf32a it sends a1 on. Is this the best way to approach this? I have 20 lights and about 16 wireless switches with 4 buttons each to program. Thanks for any help. Hope I am clear enough on my setup.
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Posted: September 23 2007 at 23:16 | IP Logged Quote TonyNo
If the unit codes "line up", create X10 RF In triggers for M On, Off, Bright and Dim for Any unit codes, then pull the unit codes out of the [TEMP3] variable, and use that in a formula action...

On:
ph_x10( "your controller", "A", [TEMP3], 0 ) + ph_x10( "your controller", "A", 102, 0 )

Off:
ph_x10( "your controller", "A", [TEMP3], 0 ) + ph_x10( "your controller", "A", 103, 0 )

Bright:
ph_x10( "your controller", "A", 105, 10)

Dim:
ph_x10( "your controller", "A", 104, 10 )

Just four triggers for the entire M house code.

Edited by TonyNo - September 23 2007 at 23:20
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