Anyway to block A1 via W800 on Elk?

Madcodger

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I wanted to transfer Insteon control to the Elk, so I purchased an ISY-99. It works great except for one big problem: If one of my many wireless X10 motion sensors starts to go dead, or when I need to change the batteries, an X10 code of "A1" is transmitted to the W800 receiver connected to the Elk, which then tells the ISY to turn on whatever device is in position A1 on the ISY. Position A1 on the ISY is "My Lighting", which controls ALL the lights in the system. Thus, all 77 switches in the system turn on. This happened last Sunday morning at 5:00, which really tanked the WAF!

I have deleted the My Lighting group from the Elk at Position A1 by clearing it using ElkRP, so nothing is listed in that position. However, the Elk continues to pass the A1 signal over to the ISY, and all lights turn on when that happens. A real pain, and Universal Devices doesn't have a way to assign another code to the My Lighting function. Is there a way to just block A1 in the Elk? If not, any other ideas?

Thanks,

Joe
 
I thought I just read a thread somewhere mentioning how you can disable the "My Lighting" feature in the ISY.
 
Dan,

That may have been a thread I authored, about a week ago, based on some faulty experimentation with the XML file. I have since corrected it.

Michael at UDI contacted Don at Elk, and I believe Michael is now working on a fix. Thanks,

Joe
 
Sorry for not being more helpful, I read so many threads, it's hard to remember all details :D
 
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