- #X10 activehome pro cm15a install#
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#X10 activehome pro cm15a code#
#X10 activehome pro cm15a full#
If you've got a house full of switches and such, however, you still need something to talk to them. X10 is an old technology, is slow (about one second to receive or send a command), it is inherently unreliable as there is no checksum on the power line itself, there is no security to speak of and there is no current manufacturer support as the company appears to be out of business. "lights on when someone is in the room") they work just fine. Those little X10 "Hawkeye" motion sensors, incidentally, are very cheap these days, very small in size, run for a long time on two AAA batteries and for occupancy detection (e.g.
#X10 activehome pro cm15a install#
"P IR") data and translate it to a power-line command, so for an install where you can put the interface close enough to be "in range" of X10 wireless motion sensors this interface will also provide you a working gateway for those PLUS a computer interface in one box.
In addition the CM15 will receive wireless (e.g. Rev 2 units tend to not exhibit this behavior and thus are preferred. Some early CM15s will claim to be sending when they really aren't (although they will reliably receive even so), but whether this is a firmware problem or a hardware fault is unknown. The CM15 doesn't have those problems, and if you get one of the more-recent ones (Rev 2) is likely to be materially more-stable.
#X10 activehome pro cm15a serial#
The CM11 interface is serial (rather than USB) and has a number of nasty and varied firmware bugs depending on the interface's revision and some of them, especially if there is noise on the power line, cause lockups that cannot be cleared without a power-cycle. Your options, if you have X10 devices, are this (the CM15) or the CM11. If you have X10 devices, a better choice than the CM11