Re: Re: medusa cm11 or x10.basic bug?

[John Gorst <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not as much of a show shoper as the previous bug but:

When I send the command:
command=ALL_UNITS_OFF
house=A

Nothing happens (or all_lights_off)

I get the following in event viewer:
Error parsing xpl command: Invalid device(s):

(NB no devices are listed)

Is it that medusacm11 only implements some x10.basic functions?
Do you have a list of what it does?

Cheers for an otherwise fantasstic bit of software!

Tom Van den Panhuyzen wrote:

>Found it.
>
>It seems the time the CM11 (or CM12) waits before flagging it is ready
>for a next command is directly related to the brightness level...
>
>An X10 communication PC -> CM11 typically goes like this
(simplified,
>checksums left out for clarity):
>
> PC: device address
> CM11: OK
> PC: brightness + function
> CM11: OK
>
>The PC cannot send (next) data before the CM11 has sent its OK.
>
>Brightness level -- millisecs before CM11 raises OK flag:
>0 -- 530
>10 -- 530
>20 -- 981
>30 -- 1412
>40 -- 1852
>50 -- 2503
>60 -- 2944
>70 -- 3384
>80 -- 3835
>90 -- 4266
>100 -- 4927
>
>The initial timeout to wait for the OK flag was set to 2000 ms.  That
>is why it started to fail for brightness values > 40.
>
>Why does the CM11 behave like that ?  Maybe it takes up to 5 secs to
>dim a lamp from 0 to 100% and the CM11 takes the responsability to
>stop any more X10 commands until it is sure the BRIGHT command is
>finished ?  That is the only plausible explanation I can think of.
>
>Anyway, I have updated the source & binaries on my site.  Please
>uninstall and re-install the new version.
>
>Let me know if it works better now!
>
>Regards,
>Tom
>http://users.pandora.be/see/ha/
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