RE: Gremlins stole my WAF

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxx>]

Your house wasn't built on an ancient burial ground by any chance was
it?   ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: anthony.kirrane@xxxxxxx [mailto:anthony.kirrane@xxxxxxx]

Sent: 02 February 2004 11:43
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Gremlins stole my WAF

Hi all

I have been happily using Autom8it for the last six months.  I have
about 10
X10 light switches and about 3 X10 Appliance switches.  Nothing too
fancy.  I
downloaded the Autom8it scheduler plugin about 4 months ago and set-up a
sunset/sunrise routine.  This turns on the garden lights at dusk and off
again in the morning.  Everything was working as expected.

Out of the blue last week the lights started switching on and off
outside of
any scheduled times.  I awoke last Wednesday morning to find evidence of
the
total annihilation of my WAF.  Indeed the light was hanging off the
bedroom
ceiling and one of the wall switches had been given a severe beating.
When I
went downstairs the computer I use to control the automation was
unplugged
and looking very sorry for itself.  Apparently, unbeknown to me (as I
sleep
like a log)  the wife had been kept up all night by a disco sequence of
the
house lights. She eventually unplugged the PC that controls it all.  She
also
unplugged the All House Code receiver and took the batteries out of the
4in1
remote.  All to no avail.  The lights still switched on and off
apparently by
themselves.

So after the initial ear bashing and my attempts to salvage some WAF I
decided to investigate.  After a week of investigating I haven't got the
foggiest as to why this could be happening.  My best guess is a faulty
switch
or some third party device issuing an All Lights On and All Lights Off
command.

Has anyone experienced anything similar and or has anyone got any good
diagnosis strategies.

Kind regards


Anthony


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