Re: XTB-II Enhanced Repeater

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Jeff Volp" <JeffVolp@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> Unfortunately, that would require a hardware change.  The XTB-II and the
> XTB-IIR will share the same V1.1 PCB.  The board is populated with a few
> additional components for the enhanced repeater, and there are some value
> changes, including a different PIC.  I already have the boards.
>
> Your point on the broadcast storm is well taken.  The present firmware
> includes an undocumented option that prevents the ping-pong that can
happen
> when using multiple repeaters.  That can be modified to also recognize a
> broadcast storm.  However there is nothing the present hardware can do to
> issue an audible alarm or a contact closure when that happens.  Sorry...

Too bad.  Maybe my CPU-XA can be programmed to recognize a broadcast storm
and sound an alert when it happens.  Since stuck buttons have been an issue
at least four or five times in the past, it's something that I probably
should address in some manner because it's so catastrophic when it happens.

Often, I may not have been the one to push the button that's gotten stuck
so retracing my steps is sometimes pointless.  The Monterey is useful in
pinning down the bad device, but an alarm that sounded as soon as perhaps 20
X-10 commands in a row were detected would be far more useful in alerting
the user to the problem the instant that it occurred, not minutes or hours
later when then *next* X-10 command is sent and it fails due to a broadcast
storm.

--
Bobby G.