Re: X-10 Mister House Motion sensor problems

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Larry Moss" <moss@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On 2006-06-07, Dave Houston <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Watching your ESM1 may give you a picture of when the delays occur.
>
> Right.  I'll definitely do that.  I've hardly been home the last few days.
>
> > The simplest way to speed things up is to have the RR501 turn on the
light
> > and have Mr. House merely log the activity.
>
> That would be great, but I can't.  As I mentioned before, there are two
> motion sensors.  Due to the shape of the room, a single one couldn't
always
> see me no matter where I put it.  I did originally try that. One of them
> would send an off while I was still in there.  Lights would go on and off.
> Also, what I didn't mention is that the basement is wired with only pull
> string fixtures, so I'm using screw in modules.  No way to plug them into
> the transceiver.  (I plugged in a utility light for the original
> experiment.)

So, if I follow correctly you're using a different housecode so that you can
have the computer decide when to turn off the lights, not the motion
detector.  I recall seeing a mod that made the PIR MD's only send ONs on
every motion detected but never an off.

I believe you can get around this by doing the following.  Set the timers on
both MD's to the maximum.  That why, the off can be issue by the controlling
software X minutes after it's seen the last on or when it detects that
you've moved to a different room or whatever.

Can you trace the wire going to the lights and find an outlet to plug the
transceiver into that's on the same branch?  The close the sender is to the
receiver, the fewer transmission problems you'll have.

Did turning off the log have an effect on the overall speed?

--
Bobby G.