[misterhouse-users] Re: Power outage recover

[John F. S. <sno...@ex...>]

>> As a fairly new MH user, please forgive me if this is an old 
>> topic. As I was 
>> getting ready for work this morning, we had a brief power outage (30 
>> seconds). When the power came back on and all the X10 controlled lights 
>> didn't, I got wondering if there was a easy recovery process to turn
those 
>> lights back on automatically. 
>> 
>> My computers are all on UPS power and I went over to the one running MH.
I 
>> noticed that MH does find out from the CM11 interface that it lost power 
>> and, when the power returned to the CM11, MH reinitialized the CM11 and 
>> reset its clock. 
>> 
>> Is there a way from my user code to detect those power interruptions and 
>> re-initializations of the CM11 unit so that I can then go down through a 
>> list of my X10 items, checking their current states, and sending 
>> ON commands to all units whose state is supposed to be on? 

>Not at the moment.  Seems like that would be a nice option, but I >don't
see a clean/easy way to have the CM11 notify mh of a power >fail.  I suppose
we could set a flag in CM11.pm that you could then >poll. 

>How about the UPS.  Don't they come with serial interfaces that send >out
data on power outages? 

>Bruce 

Bruce,

Some UPS units do have a serial connection, some don't. The one I'm using,
unfortunately, does not. Even if it did, all my serial ports are tied up at
the current time with interfaces. Oh well, guess I'll wait until someone
gets clever enough to add that flag to CM11.pm.

Thanks,
John







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