Re: Random X10 all lights on/all units off over and over

[AZ Woody <reply@here>]

Neighbors new to X10 trying to control their Xmas display?

No one that's used X10 for more than a few days would have anything on
the "A" HC, as that's prone to interference from neighbors....  All
devices seems to default to "A".....

looper@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Ok, this was embarassing.  I drove home today to find all the X10
> lights in my house toggling on, toggling off, on, off, on off.  My
> house is X10 Haunted!
>
> As soon as I got inside, I unplugged the CM11A,  and the TM751
> transceiver, and a mini-switch I have. These are all the devices that I
> have that can possibly generate X10 signals.  The haunting continued.
> After about a minute, I tried to use one of the wireless remote
> controls, (which should have had no effect since the transceiver was
> unplugged) and suddenly everything stopped.
>
> Checking my homeseer logs, I see a lot of noise, which I usually get,
> but I'm too cheap to buy a signal analyzer/filter and debug it.
>
>
> 12/8/2006 7:59:08 PM~!~X10 Received~!~A14 (?)  A On
> 12/8/2006 7:59:17 PM~!~X10 Received~!~A14 (?)  A Off
> 12/8/2006 7:59:24 PM~!~X10 Received~!~A14 (?)  A On
> 12/8/2006 7:59:30 PM~!~X10 Received~!~A14 (?)  A Off
> 12/8/2006 7:59:32 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ B All Lights On
> 12/8/2006 7:59:32 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ A All Lights On
> 12/8/2006 7:59:34 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ A All Units Off
> 12/8/2006 7:59:34 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ B All Units Off
> 12/8/2006 7:59:34 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ A All Lights On
> 12/8/2006 7:59:35 PM~!~X10 Received~!~A14 (?)  A On
> 12/8/2006 7:59:41 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ B All Units Off
> 12/8/2006 7:59:41 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ A All Lights On
> 12/8/2006 7:59:41 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ A All Units Off
> 12/8/2006 7:59:46 PM~!~X10 Received~!~A14 (?)  A Off
> 12/8/2006 7:59:55 PM~!~X10 Received~!~A14 (?)  A On
> 12/8/2006 8:00:01 PM~!~X10 Received~!~A14 (?)  A Off
> 12/8/2006 8:00:18 PM~!~X10 Received~!~B9 (?)  B Bright 7
> 12/8/2006 8:00:19 PM~!~X10 Received~!~B9 (?)  B Bright 7
> 12/8/2006 8:00:34 PM~!~X10 Received~!~B9 (?)  B Bright 7
> 12/8/2006 8:00:34 PM~!~X10 Received~!~B9 (?)  B Bright 7
> 12/8/2006 8:00:35 PM~!~X10 Received~!~B9 (?)  B Bright 7
> 12/8/2006 8:00:39 PM~!~X10 Received~!~B9 (?) B2 (Family Room TV ON on
> remote) B9 (?)  B Bright 7
> 12/8/2006 8:00:39 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ A All Lights On
> 12/8/2006 8:00:39 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ A All Units Off
> 12/8/2006 8:00:39 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ B All Units Off
> 12/8/2006 8:00:39 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ A All Lights On
> 12/8/2006 8:00:40 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ A All Units Off
> 12/8/2006 8:00:40 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ B All Units Off
> 12/8/2006 8:00:40 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ A All Lights On
> 12/8/2006 8:00:42 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ A All Units Off
> 12/8/2006 8:00:42 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ B All Lights On
> 12/8/2006 8:00:42 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ A All Lights On
> 12/8/2006 8:00:46 PM~!~X10 Received~!~A14 (?)  A On
> 12/8/2006 8:00:52 PM~!~X10 Received~!~A14 (?)  A Off
> 12/8/2006 8:00:58 PM~!~X10 Received~!~A14 (?)  A On
> 12/8/2006 8:01:08 PM~!~X10 Received~!~A14 (?)  A Off
> 12/8/2006 8:01:14 PM~!~X10 Received~!~A14 (?)  A On
> 12/8/2006 8:01:19 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ B All Lights On
> 12/8/2006 8:01:19 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ B All Units Off
> 12/8/2006 8:01:19 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ A All Lights On
> 12/8/2006 8:01:20 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ A All Units Off
> 12/8/2006 8:01:21 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ B All Units Off
> 12/8/2006 8:01:21 PM~!~X10 Received~!~ A All Lights On
> etc etc.
>
>
> I don't know what the B9 Bright 7 is, it's noise I always get from
> something and just ignore.A14 is the night/day unit for a motion sensor
> I have - not sure why it was toggling, it often does that, I should
> replace the batteries or replace the sensor
>
> I'm willing to put up with noise and a generally pretty unreliable X10
> system, but coming home to every single light in my house toggling is
> very, very embarassing.  Especially since I really don't know the cause
> of it.  Fortunately, according to the homeseer logs, it onlly went
> completely nuts about 30 minutes before I got home, and the wife wasn't
> home, so that embarassment was spared.
>
> I have a mixture of appliance switches, wall switches, lamp modules,
> etc.
>
> Can anyone suggest what it could be? I thought it could be a faulty
> transceiver or a faulty Cm11a, but when I pulled all of these it was
> still insane. I'm assuming that there's no concept of "buffering" in
> the units so it couldn't have been afteraffect from a broken
> transmitter that had been unplugged.  The only other clue I can offer
> is that we're having a rainstorm.
>
> By the way, searching through my log, I don't see any other time when
> "B All Units Off" was hit. It seems this was a unique occurence.  I
> just dont want it to hit again in the middle of the night and have to
> go unwire all the x10's from my house, or change their house codes.
>
> Thanks.
>