RE: [misterhouse-users] Increasing reliability with the X10_W800RF module?

[Bruce W. <br...@mi...>]

> I thought I'd share this tip with the group. I have been
> experiencing unknown serial reception with my W800RF receiver and
> X10 rf devices and think I have a fix. I'm very new to perl (much
> more adept with Verilog actually) but this change appears to work.
>
> >From runnning rf32.exe it turns out that when an X10 RF
> transmitter transmits (motion sensor, keypad etc) it sends the
> same message a number of times. However, the first instance of
> this can often be corrupt, which can cause it to be interpreted
> as something else. Generally the following instances are OK. I
> took a look in the X10_W800RF.pm module and think I found a way
> to make it more reliability in this case.

Interesting.   So maybe the problem some of these guys are seeing with bad
incoming X10 rf data is that mh is parsing an incomplete data?  From your
observation, does the transmiter always send the data completely more than
once?

Anyone object to Alan's change?   Maybe we want the same update to the
X10_W800.pm modules (same function, different author, similar 'debounce'
code)?  Not sure if the MR26 would function the same way.

Bruce