Re: [misterhouse-users] turning on X10 cameras

[Brian R. <br...@pr...>]

Ahh, this sounds like an undocumented feature. If one of the cameras sees activity on
it's house code (as in another camera being turned on) the camera shuts off. This
allows many cameras to use one reciever, as long as only one is on at a time...
Plausible...


Damon Hopkins wrote:

> my brothers cam does the same thing and he doesn't even use mh at all..
> every time he turns off his light in his room the cam goes off as well..
> Is yours plugged into a power strip his is.. that might be part of his
> problem.
>
>                 Damon Hopkins
>
> Ray Dzek wrote:
> >
> > My X-10 cam has some issues.  So I actually had to move mine to its own
> > house code other wise it would turn off anytime you tried to use any
> > other device on the same code.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Maneesh Naganand <ma...@ya...>
> > Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:32:29 -0800 (PST)
> > Subject: [misterhouse-users] turning on X10 cameras
> >
> > > Having trouble turing X10 camers on/off.  I can use my
> > > script to turn on X10 lights on/off, but not the
> > > camers.  Here is some of the messages are seeing:
> > >
> > >
> > > Running: cntl_x10
> > > ---> Toggle light A3 to K
> > > Data received while xmiting data ... will receive and
> > > retry
> > > ---> Toggle light A3 to J
> > > ---> Toggle light A3 to K
> > > ---> Toggle light A3 to J
> > >
> > > Done running: cntl_x10
> > >
> > > D:\mh\bin>
> > >
> > > Basically, all I did was take the X10 script and
> > > change the $unit to my camera.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Maneesh
> > >
> > >
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