I thought I was going mad......

["Keith Doxey" <lists.diyha@xxxxxxx>]

I thought I was going mad......

....when strange X10 things were happening or not happening.

No hot water the other day - BAD THING - Nearly froze my bits off in
the
bath
Thought the element must have died but tried an override of the module
-
water heated up OK -
- put that down to a 1 off X10 failure and considered changing the way
that
important things are done eg instead of turning the Water Heater OFF/ON
with
a schedule, have a flag that is set or cleared. Then have a scheduled
event
that happens every 10 minutes and either forces the Hot Water OFF/ON
according to the flag. That should mean it will never be wrong after 10
minutes even if a signal fails to get through. 10 minutes should ensure
I
dont flood the system with X10 traffic.

Couldnt turn the lounge lights off last night. - BAD SIGN
Tried a power down of the IR 543 - still no good.
Changed the house code and then put it back - still no good
Considered the X10 failure the other day - thought something was
blocking
it - waited 10 mins - it worked.

Alarm went off this morning but no light on in the bedroom - another
failure - BAD SIGN.
Came downstairs and went into the lounge - lamps were on like they
should
be - GOOD SIGN
5 seconds later - LAMPS WENT OFF - that aint supposed to happen - BAD
SIGN
Tried to turn them back on - IR543 not working - it sends directly to
the
lamps not via Homevision - BAD SIGN
Looked at the clock - 05:50 - DING !!!!!

Light SHOULD go off at 06:50

I had checked the time on Homevision and set it right when the clocks
changed but HV had then adjusted itself
1 HOUR FAST - RESET

Viewed the log to see what X10 commands it had received from the IR543
if
any....
LOADS, on housecodes A, P, J.... infact anything but L (Lounge)

Disassemble IR 543 - Code wheel broken - solder link in place - Now fixed
to
Housecode L

These are the first real problems I have had with X10 in over 5 years
and
the confusion was caused by 2 things
Wrong time on Homevision AND a faulty IR 543 at the same time.

Now what are the chances of that !!!!!!

I feel much better now normal operation has been restored :-))

Keith

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