RE: LD11 preset question (with Homeseer)

["Kevin Hawkins" <lists@xxxxxxx>]

    There are two very similar threads here so sorry to mix the quotes but...I have been trying this recently too - and despite the info copied from the adjacent thread [UKHA Wandsworth switch pics up - dim thread - which controller] re LD11 documentation copied here ....posted by Keith Baker.. (who appears very frustrated on finding this info too...)

 

"The LD11 also responds to professional X-10. Combined with the memory dim feature, the LD11 can change the room lighting instantly or progressively."

and

"Soft (fixed) start and stop with STANDARD X10 and programmable start and stop rates with PROFESSIONAL X10 protocol."

and also this posting by David Anamudu in the Comfort Technical newsgroup

 

> > I have been playing with ActiveHome and HomeSeer, and have been able to
> get
> > the ld11 units to 'soft start' to differing brightneses, and also to go
> > immediately to different brightnesses.

 

David is now not able to repeat this and I have been unable to get anything working using any X10 commands (Homeseer / Homevision / ECS / Leopard etc) - My conclusion is that any go immediate to level function or any 'preset the level function (whilst turned off)' is not implemented. Also any change of ramp speed is not possible. I think the ramped change is unavoidable. Unless someone knows better.... Can anyone switch an LD11 ON instantly at a set brightness ?

 

        Kevin

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 February 2002 12:12
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] LD11 preset question (with Homeseer)

Bummer. - that'll explain why I can't get it toi work then!

Oh well, I guess I'll have o do it like you say, - every day, I'll "reset"
the dim level to 100% by turning it on, setting the level, then turning it
off again. I'll do it as part of my daily reset routine which runs at 05:30
every morning.

This is for the bathroom lights, where there will be a sensor switch just
inside the door for "normal" operation of the light, and for highest WAF,
this should operate as normal as possible, i.e. come on at 100% brightness.
However, I do intend to have some PIR activated lighting responses active
during the night-time period to automatically turn the lights on at only
about 30% brightness whenever the bathroom door is opened, and we have gone
to bed...

ways and means.....

Paul G.



>From: "Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] LD11 preset question (with Homeseer)
>Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:53:40 -0000
>
>AFAIK, this is not possible as you are not sending an X10 signal back to
>the controller from a momentary switch.
>
>If you want the level to change you could do what I used to do with the
>old firmware LD10's. That is at, say 10.30pm, the lights came on and set
>to the level required, set a flag in HV so HV could track the status of
>the lights and then switched them back off again. That way the lights,
>until they reset in the morning, were dimmed for night-time operation,
>worked okay if not ideal.
>
>HTH
>
>K.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 20 February 2002 10:12
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx> > Subject: [ukha_d] LD11 preset question (with Homeseer)
> >
> >
> > Hi chaps, hope someone can help me, cos try as I might, I cannot seem
>to
> > get
> > this to work how I want it....
> >
> > I want to set a preset dim level in an LD11 *without* turning it on,
>so
> > that
> > the next time it is manually operated from the momentary switch, it
>will
> > come on at that level. I need to do this from Homeseer. (no problem
>doing
> > it
> > via script)
> >
> > I've got the LD11 device set as "Leviton dim" in Homeseer - If I set
>it to
> > "Preset dim", then dim & bright commands sent from the Homeseer GUI
>are
> > not
> > actioned.
> >
> > If I send it a hs.exec10 script command with the "preset dim"
>parameter,
> > it
> > does precisely nothing, same goes for using the "extended" parameter.
> > Using
> > the "dim" or "bright" paramters turns the unit on at the specified
> > level...
> >
> > Any thoughts?...
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Paul G.
> >
> >
> > _________________________________________________________________
> >