Background.
HomeSeer PC is in barn, about 150 wire-feet from house. X-10 Pro amp/repeater is in basement of house. I have (3) X-10 outdoor motion sensors which are notorious for sending spurious signals. I use them to switch cameras. I also have an outside GFI* which supervises lighting and water feature circuits.
Problem.
Everything was working fine until last week.
Palm pad stopped working on House Code P. Then the problem spread to some unit codes on D. I was still able to operate the lights and water features through client PCs (Xlobby) and directly from the HS server. I checked the HS log and saw nothing to indicate motion sensor flooding. So, I thought this was a phase bridging issue after I saw no traffic on the coupler/repeater (the LED was dark) and ordered a new one from AO.
No joy. In fact, the new coupler/repeater started flashing like mad after I tried a bunch of button presses on a palm pad. (What does the LED signify? Collisions? Traffic?) Now there is no palm pad nor client control in the house. Even the HS server has no effect.
Remediation tries.
I power-cycled the coupler/repeater. Nada. Then I went to the barn and shut down the HS PC and pulled out the TI 103 X-10 interface and went back to the house basement. Coupler/repeater was still flashing. I killed power to 2 of the 3 motion sensors. No joy. BTW, one of those motion sensor's attached floodlights had locked on. But that wasn't it. It's raining and I don't know which breaker controls the 3rd motion sensor. I'll disconnect it at the head end tomorrow.
I enabled every log option HS does on startup and see nothing unusual. There's a file to be written to in one option which tells HS2 to log to hstrace.log. I couldn't find that file.
Up until an hour ago, I could use a palm pad out here in the barn. That functionality is gone now, as well. I just killed the power to the coupler/repeater and see if I could get any control back in the barn at least. Nope.
Next.
When it stops raining tomorrow, I'll disconnect the last motion sensor and kill the outside GFI* in case it may make line noise under certain conditions (?). I have another one inside the barn and held a AM radio next to it but heard nothing. Is that even valid to detect line noise? I discovered that I can find breaks in my Invisible Fence that way.
Anyone?
TIA!
HomeSeer PC is in barn, about 150 wire-feet from house. X-10 Pro amp/repeater is in basement of house. I have (3) X-10 outdoor motion sensors which are notorious for sending spurious signals. I use them to switch cameras. I also have an outside GFI* which supervises lighting and water feature circuits.
Problem.
Everything was working fine until last week.
Palm pad stopped working on House Code P. Then the problem spread to some unit codes on D. I was still able to operate the lights and water features through client PCs (Xlobby) and directly from the HS server. I checked the HS log and saw nothing to indicate motion sensor flooding. So, I thought this was a phase bridging issue after I saw no traffic on the coupler/repeater (the LED was dark) and ordered a new one from AO.
No joy. In fact, the new coupler/repeater started flashing like mad after I tried a bunch of button presses on a palm pad. (What does the LED signify? Collisions? Traffic?) Now there is no palm pad nor client control in the house. Even the HS server has no effect.
Remediation tries.
I power-cycled the coupler/repeater. Nada. Then I went to the barn and shut down the HS PC and pulled out the TI 103 X-10 interface and went back to the house basement. Coupler/repeater was still flashing. I killed power to 2 of the 3 motion sensors. No joy. BTW, one of those motion sensor's attached floodlights had locked on. But that wasn't it. It's raining and I don't know which breaker controls the 3rd motion sensor. I'll disconnect it at the head end tomorrow.
I enabled every log option HS does on startup and see nothing unusual. There's a file to be written to in one option which tells HS2 to log to hstrace.log. I couldn't find that file.
Up until an hour ago, I could use a palm pad out here in the barn. That functionality is gone now, as well. I just killed the power to the coupler/repeater and see if I could get any control back in the barn at least. Nope.
Next.
When it stops raining tomorrow, I'll disconnect the last motion sensor and kill the outside GFI* in case it may make line noise under certain conditions (?). I have another one inside the barn and held a AM radio next to it but heard nothing. Is that even valid to detect line noise? I discovered that I can find breaks in my Invisible Fence that way.
Anyone?
TIA!
