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

[Jack Edin <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bobby,

It's not a big deal, really!

You put in the new batteries, and press the TEST button.

The Mister House log will have an error stating an unrecognized blah
blah blah... Within the message is a code, the transmitter's new code.

Now you edit the items.mht file, and put the new code in place of the
old... Restart MH...

In a year, when the batteries go dead again... repeat!

I know you can handle THAT!!

Right?

;-)

Jack
:)


Robert Green wrote:
> "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.
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> 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!
>
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> Bobby G.
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