ActiveEye Sensor - success

[Thomas Henry]

Michael, James,

OK, I figured it out. 

First off, I had my motion sensor and one of the living room lights assigned to the same address (B1). As soon as I assigned the sensor to B1 in XTension, it asked to swap it. That's a no-no for what I was trying to do.

As per my previous email to you, I had changed the Device to X10 Powerline only, that was not enough. The address assignment change did the trick.

So, going forward, I'm guessing it does not matter what the physical address of any motion sensor is, as long as I call the right one in XTension, yes?

I have not been successful setting up these things without XTension (on the hardware end), even less so with it. Now I get it.

I'm really seeing what a powerful program this is, thank you for all your hard work and support into helping us get the most of it!

Tom

> 
>> Hello Tom,
>> 
>> The first thing is to know whether XTension is seeing the event.
>> Which X10 wireless receiver are you using ?
>> If you set the XTension Log options to 'show all', then trigger the motion sensor (walk by),
>> you should see at least a Red entry in the log for address B1,  coincident to the walk by event.
>> 
>> lemme know
>> michael
> 
> When passing by the motion sensor, no red entry, it's logging the entry as this:
> 
> 10/20/13 3:23:22 PM Received ON for Living Room1 (CM15)
> 
> FYI, I do have the log window to Show All. I like to see what's going on ;)
> 
> On Oct 20, 2013, at 10:43 AM, James Sentman <james at sentman.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Oct 20, 2013, at 9:58 AM, Michael <michael at shed.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> I just can't get the script to activate passing by the motion sensor. The sensor does work, as the physical unit is programmed to B1, and turns on the living room light (also set to B1).
>> 
>> If it turns on the light, also set to B1, without any scripting in XTension then you have a transceiver plugged in that is converting the wireless signal to a wired signal?
> 
> That is correct, it is hitting the TM751 Transceiver, therefore a wired signal.
>> 
>> If thats so then you  may not be using a wireless received in XTension at all. In which case you want to set the B1 unit in XTension NOT as wireless, but as a regular X10 wired device. Because once the command goes onto the powerline, regardless of how it got there, it's not a wireless command anymore.
>> 
>> Perhaps that is the confusion? But we'll have to wait to setup all the rest till we figure out how to get that signal into XTension with your setup.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 	James
>> 
>> 
>> James Sentman                       http://sentman.com		http://MacHomeAutomation.com
>> 
>> 
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