Re: xAP control of X10 Extended commands via Homeseer

[Kevin Hawkins <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jon,

Welcome to xAP.   I've visited your HS based site many a few times in
the past and it also inspired me regarding electricity monitoring.  It's
a great example, well done.

I think with the lack of extended X10 support in UK devices Edward
didn't add these features to his connector but he'll no doubt let us
know.  I know Michael McSharry uses xAP and HomeSeer extensively and he
has some connectors that he's written but in quickly looking them over
it appears he supports mainly US only X10 interfaces.  I'm not sure
there's one you could use here in the UK.

http://board.homeseer.com/forumdisplay.php?f=730

He also has written his own/another xAP HomeSeer plugin.  I'm sure
someone else (in the US) had mentioned a xAP CM11/12 interface conduit
but I can't just remember who.     At a hardware level there will be an
opn232 embedded controller launched soon that will provide a xAP / X10
embedded solution.   www.opnode.org

Leaving HS in control of the X10 interface might not even be a
restriction though.    I can't remember whether the HS plugins (J's or
M's)  support the xAP X10 schema based on HS's locally attached X10
interface (J ?) , if so then it's effectively the same as one connected
via E's conduit in that X10 will become accessible as a xAP networked
resource.   The X10 devices within HS may also present as xAP 'Basic
Status and Control'  devices meaning that you have control of them via
the xAP BSC schema and onward to X10. The difference here is that the
X10 xAP schema effectively allows you to form and send X10 messages eg
Device=B7 etc - whereas the BSC schema controls one named end device eg
'Water Heater' based on the target= line.  The fact that the device is
actually controlled by X10 is hidden from the user, which is one of
xAP's purposes - to make the thing just work and no need to know how
it's accomplished.  Later if you for example swapped the water heater
over to C-Bus you don't need to change anything in your scripts  - the
named device would still work even though it had moved from X10 to C-Bus
control.

Kevin


Jon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've decided to start transferring my Home Automation setup to xAP. As
> some may know, I'm a avid Homeseer fan so most of my automation has
> revolved around this.
>
> Anyway to my problem. My house is full of X10 LD11 dimmers which
support
> extended X10 i.e. if you set a device in Homeseer to be a Leviton
6381,
> it will automatically go to any dim level without going to 100% bright
> first.
>
> For my first xAP experience, I decided to run my CM12 remotely via
> Edwards X10 connector and James Homeseer Plugin.  Everything works
fine
> with on/off/bright etc but extended commands fail to work.
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> I have searched the archives and the response before seemed that this
is
> not supported due to the lack of Extended X10 devices in Europe??
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> Is there away around this ( going to 100% bright first is not
> acceptable!) or will I have to go back to Homeseer controlling my X10
> directly?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jon
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