Problem with interfaces

[Chuck]

Henk,

At least you get alien addresses. I don’t even get those. I can change batteries in an X10 Security sensor and…..nothing. I never shows up as an alien address and it doesn’t activate the old address. But the red light blinks showing that it is working. I press the address button that changes the address and still nothing.

It gets even worse.

I have the SDR which sees some of the addresses sometimes, and I put in the RFX units as a secondary interface so that if the SDR misses it and the RFX sees it then it should update the unit. But it doesn’t. So having multiple interfaces is a waste of money.

In the decades I have been doing this I have never had so many problems. I am using the Xtension kits from James for my temperature sensors and that works pretty well. I have gone over to Z-wave sensors but all the sensors I have tried out, none of them have the versatility of the old X10 Hawkeye where the timeout can be easily adjusted and it updates its status every 10 seconds so the time delta can be used to turn off lights in case they don’t shut off like they we supposed to.

It is really frustrating…

Chuck

> On Jan 20, 2023, at 12:07 PM, Hendrik van Eeden <hvaneeden at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Chuck,
> 
> I seem to have the same problem with the RFX units.
> I lost the XTension folder after updating to 9.5, it was not Time Machine backup either. Luckily I had an old folder on my disk, which meant I had to reconfigure a lot of things that I had not touched in year.  The RFX and the W800 interface  were the main once.  I had to figure out which one tho use by trying each one.  The RFX temps filled up the log in red and the units showed low battery.  To make a long story shorter, each time I tried a different verrsion it md new units, but did nothing to the original unit.
> So I changted all the batteries and they still reported low and then is when I discovered all those new RFX. Temperature units.
> Now I don’t know which old unit goes with which new unit.
> Of course I now have dicovered the check mark for creating new units.  The damage has been done.  Lots of work to do.
> 
> 
> Henk
> 
>> On Jan 20, 2023, at 1:41 PM, Chuck <xtension4osx at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Today I was trying to troubleshoot my system that is the worst it has ever been. My W800, MR26, both RFX units and the SDR is not working reliably.
>> 
>> As I started to track down the problems I discovered that I was getting updates for SDR units but it was not updating a unit with the same address already in my database. In this case it is A9. As I looked into this I was getting similar problems with other unit. I would have a unit B11 in my data base but the SDR did not update that unit but would create a new unit with the same address.
>> 
>> Clearly something is wrong with the communications between the SDR and Xtension. I have attached a screen shot of the units with identical addresses but one is updating while the other isn’t. This seems to be a major issue with my system.
>> 
>> Chuck
>> 
>> <Screenshot 2023-01-20 at 10.30.58 AM.png>
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