X-10 with Omni Pro II

[PaulD]

The Omni Pro II board has a place to plug in a HAI product (10A09-7) that appears to be a X-10 PIM. How does that work?
1) Can X-10 and UPB coexist OK?
2) Can an X-10 sensor trigger an action via a UPB device? Vice-versa?

I have never worked with any X-10 system but I am curious what role the OPII plays in using both technologies at the same time and how they might be able to interact....good or bad. Anyone here had any experience with that mix using an OPII?

I have some things I would like to experiment with and X-10 devices are cheap to play around with compared to everything else. I know they don't have the performance level as UPB but for some of the non critical stuff I would like to play with, they would be just fine.

 

[cornutt]

The Omni Pro II board has a place to plug in a HAI product (10A09-7) that appears to be a X-10 PIM. How does that work?
1) Can X-10 and UPB coexist OK?
2) Can an X-10 sensor trigger an action via a UPB device? Vice-versa?

Supposedly X-10 and UPB can coexist on the same system; they use completely different modulation techniques. I haven't tried it myself. (I have a low opinion of X-10 from having had some bad experiences with it a number of years ago.)

 

[jharrell]

I have an OmniPro II with both X10 and UPB.

They both work, the X10 PIM plugs into a specific plug just for it on the Omni board, the UPB PIM plugs into any available serial port on the board.

The Omni has 255 "units" that can be named and controlled, these are mapped to x10,upb,hlc, etc. So once you setup the PIM's and Units then you can write whatever automation logic for x10 and UPB to interact, so you can basically bridge x10 to upb using an Omni.

I use X10 specifically for outdoor motion flood lights, which no one makes in UPB, if they did I would have no X10 in my house, it is too unreliable. I still have one floodlight I can't communicate with even after tracking down signal suckers and noise sources using x10 test equipment. My UPB has been 100% reliable with no fiddling.

 

[PaulD]

So once you setup the PIM's and Units then you can write whatever automation logic for x10 and UPB to interact, so you can basically bridge x10 to upb using an Omni.

Thanks...that is the info I was looking for. I have an OPII now with over 100 UPB devices as well as a GE wireless receiver hooked to the OPII. I know X-10 is not reliable but I have some stuff I want to experiment with that is non critical and I can live with some snags. If my projects work to my satisfaction, I can shift to UPB later. If they don't, I have not made a big investment with just a few X-10 items.