Re: Looking at how to use the DS10A with other devices

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Dave Houston" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in

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> >I just started doing the same thing with the X-10 Rex units.  I decided
> >rather than keeping them crammed with 8 "C" cells I would assign them
each
> >their own house code since that part of their setup is done with a
standard
> >code wheel.  It did take a long time of resetting the damn things before
I
> >realized I could take advantage of the default tendency in a positive
way.
>
> IIRC the DS10A has no default ID. It will pick a random ID when the
> batteries are changed. It might even pick one already in use by another
> security module since there are only 256 possibilities.

Good point.  I did not know that "feature" of the DS10A.

I have the Rexes running with Hawkeyes, now, not the DS10.  I know I have a
DS10A somewhere - I think it's in the X-10 security system package I never
opened that my uncle left.  Picking an "in use" code at battery change time
is something I can live without.  No wonder it's still in the box.  At one
time I thought the dialer might be useful but something I read in the
newsgroup led me to believe otherwise.  Thanks for the update on how the
DS10A works - or sort of works.  In the box it stays!

--
Bobby G.