RE: X10 Question

["White, Peter" <peter.white@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Looks interesting.  I spent hours Googling for X10-compatible alarms,
but
this one never showed up.

My original plan was not to have the alarm control the lights directly, but
rather to have it send out certain codes for certain events, i.e. if each
user has their own code for the alarm, when SWMBO arrives home and
deactivates the alarm, it then sends out an X10 code which is picked up by
Homeseer, which turns on certain lights, tunes the TV into
EastEnders/Corry/Richard & Judy and plays back any voice messages.
Likewise, when the alarm is armed, Homeseer will know there's nobody home,
so can adjust the doorbell to go woof rather than ding dong, and silence
all
other other Sonos zones.  Ultimately it's just an easy way to know if
there's anybody in the house.

Pete

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From: Jonathan Hall [mailto:jonathan@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 21 August 2006 12:56
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] X10 Question



Hi Peter,

It is this one http://www.espuk. <http://www.espuk.com/intro_infinite.htm>
-com/intro_-infinite.-htm I got it from
www.tlc-direct.-co.uk <http://www.tlc- <http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/>
-direct.co.-uk/> as they were the
cheapest I could find. Comfort seemed to be a bit OTT for what I wanted to
start with as I'd decided not to put any HA into our current house but
would
in the next.

The x10 module is a daughter board that plugs in, alone with a phone
dialler, which I have, and a GSM dialler, which I don't. I don't have the
x10 module yet either as I hadn't plan to go down that route initially but
I
like the idea of being to activate the lights if the alarm activates.
Having emailed the tech people at the company about the x10 module they say
that the next version of the firmware will be able to switch on the lights
but they don't have it in yet. I've asked them for some info techy info
today but not had a response yet. When I do I'll post what I find out.

Like you I'm not going wireless, my cousin is a sparkie, who does alarms,
and he said as I could run wires in, I'm renovating the house so I took it
back to the shell, to do that. He said the batteries go flat in the sensors
and unless you keep on top of it you might not know and then there a comms
issues. I tried wireless LAN in my house and decided to CAT 5 the place.

Cheers

Jonathan

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From: ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
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[mailto:ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
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Behalf Of
White, Peter
Sent: 21 August 2006 12:09
To: ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
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Subject: RE: [ukha_d] X10 Question

What alarm is it? I've not been able to find any alarm that supports X10,
apart from a Prosys (currently installed, and it's bloody awful to
configure) and a wireless one whose name escapes me, but it was something
to
do with BT. We're now ripping out the alarm and replacing it with something
a little more standard, and just having very basic X10 via relays and
powerflash modules. As I've got the wires I'd rather use them rather than
going wireless.

Pete

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From: Marcus Warrington [mailto:marcus.-warrington@
<mailto:marcus.-warrington%-40mis-es.-com>
mis-es.com]
Sent: 21 August 2006 11:50
To: ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_-d%40yahoogroups.-com>
com
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] X10 Question

Jonathan,

The LD11's (+ 99% of all modules available in the UK) do *not* support
status response. This means that it is impossible for the alarm panel to
simply ask the modules if the light is currently on or off. In your
particular case I don't think it matters because the Alarm panel will
not be toggling the light like the light switches do, it will be issuing
an explicit X10 command "Light ON". This means if the light is
currently
off it will turn on but if already on it will remain on i.e. ignore the
command

In fact if you use an LD11 (which supports extended codes) and your
alarm panel supports extended X10 commands, then you could actually
issue a "Direct To 100%" command which would then mean that if
the light
was already on but dimmed it would brighten to 100% instead of remaining
dimmed.

Marcus

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From: ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_-d%40yahoogroups.-com>
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[mailto:ukha_-d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_-d%40yahoogroups.-com>
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Behalf
Of Jonathan Hall
Sent: 21 August 2006 11:21
To: ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_-d%40yahoogroups.-com>
-com
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] X10 Question

Thanks for you replies on this. If I use something like the LD11 from
Lets
Automate, as Marcus suggested, and wired as Kevin said with the switches
in
parallel. I see that that pushing any momentary switch will toggle the
state
of the lights.

As I want the alarm to switch on the lights if an event is triggered, is
there a way to leave the lights on if they are already? Or is that
really
down to the level of intelligence in the alarm to check the status of
the
lights? If it is just acting as another switch then it would just toggle
from the current state and turn the lights off if they were on. Not the
idea I had in mind, I like to see where I'm running when I'm in blind
panic
:-).

Cheers
Jonathan

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