ActiveHome USB X10 Controller CM15A
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JeffCharger
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John, I think that I read when the CM15a was released that HS had no plan to support this device.....
Thanks for the info guys, I wasn't sure. Saw one in the Deals sub forum for $10, and figured I would ask before getting it.
ver0776
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You mean they wouldn't release an SDK? The CM15A has an SDK and it was SUPER easy to interface to. It was the first HA controller I interfaced to. It was a Godsend compared to that crap Insteon put out. I am sure more than a few people will be spending a lot of time in fire and brimstone for that f' job. But Homeseer supports Insteon, so there is no reason not to support the CM15A.... Oh wait, there is capitalism...
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Michael McSharry
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When the CM15A was released the only information I could find was what others had reverse engineered. Do you have a link to the CM15A SDK? The thing that had interested me about the CM15A was the conditional logic. I never found anything documented for interfacing with it and eventually gave up.
Michael McSharry
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This SDK gives examples of how to use the X10 software application to perform basic IO functions. It does not describe any communication with the CM15A hardware and it does not show anything about the downloading or the support for conditional logic. I suspect X10 does not want to release this information as it may cut into their software sales and then it would also need to be supported.
JeffCharger
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Mark, I thought that the SDK wasn't adequate to provide full support for the CM15a??
macromark
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Jeff - The SDK is nothing more than a couple .dll files and some basic command documentation... and we have to incorporate those .dlls in our plug-in. This is not ideal, since we like to have a lot more control than that. Also, there is no support for "preset dim", like there is in other interfaces (CM11/12, TI103, Powerlinc 1132, to name a few). Users with X10 brand lamp modules won't care but users with Smarthome Lamplinc or PCS X10 modules will probably miss that feature.
Anyway... we've been getting a lot more requests for this lately so it finally made sense to whip something up.
The new X10 Soft Start LM465s support preset Dims; if I remember correctly and X10s AHP for the CM15A dose not handle them very nicely.
Also X10 did not change the part number so for a time the batches where mixed. Some soft start some old types.
http://www.x10community.com/forums/index.php?topic=13357.0
Also X10 did not change the part number so for a time the batches where mixed. Some soft start some old types.
http://www.x10community.com/forums/index.php?topic=13357.0
macromark
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The CM15a beta plug-in is now available here: http://board.homeseer.com/showthread.php?t=129964
Mark
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