Posted: 10 March 2010 at 7:42am | IP Logged

Well, here goes my first post.

Ive been plaing around with Harmony 2007 and various other X10 devices for a while and im now at the stage where i want to integrate Harmony permantly.

However after trying various PC's from Win2K, XP and Vista all seem to have the same problem in that when Harmony is asked to control a device, be it from the interface or an Event, there is a considerable amount of time between the Harmony receiveing the request and the X10 module responding.

This is the case with my other X10 controllers, so i can only narrow it down to the current harmony setup.  I have tried both USB and standard serial connectors to the CM11 but the issue still remains.

Can any one offer any advice or better still a solution

Many Thanks

Posted: 10 March 2010 at 7:53am | IP Logged

Hi Homer,

The delay can be from 10 to 60 seconds, sometimes not even received by the x10 device 

Also after reading through the forum, i see harmony should show commands send by my other controllers.  Im not seeing these in Harmony.

Posted: 10 March 2010 at 8:56am | IP Logged

I have a couple of surge protectors and will try taking these out of the equation. Half way through a mains re-wire.

I have been through this process when nothing worked and strangly it was my Virgin Cable Modem that was causing the issue, A filter sorted this out

Will give this as try and see what happens.

If i need to take the surge protectors out, will a filter also work on these?

Thanks for your help, will let you know how i get on.

Posted: 10 March 2010 at 4:57pm | IP Logged

• Electrically noisy items can include switch mode power supplies (Pc's and just about all the phone and modem power supplies nowadays), and things with motors in.
• The best place for the CM11 is by the fusebox as it is the centre of standard house wiring ring mains.
• X10 installations involve quite a bit of experimentation if things don't work out of the box to get things right.

Posted: 12 March 2010 at 7:39am | IP Logged

Morning Homer,

Ill be doing the tetsing this evening have i have completed the mains circuit re-wire.

Hopefully i will find the culprit device.  While the mains are powered down i will be taking your advice and having a dedicated circuit, with just the one socket from the Distrbution Unit soley for the CM11.

However i have a feeling that i will need some new 4-way extensions without the added surge protection.

The CCTV is next on my list

Posted: 14 August 2010 at 7:28pm | IP Logged

Im back,  Had some other issues to attened to,  otherwise i wouldn't have had an home to automate lol.

After further testing, i used a filter module on my Virgin Modem, this allowed the CM11 to detect other signals.  However this left me with the slow response time.  5 to 30 seconds, if at all.

I did the usual and unpluged everything, the culprit was the still the Virgin Modem.  I disconnected the power supply from the back of the modem and signals would pass through fine.  I have now changed the the power supply for the modem and everything works a treat :-)

Have now installed Harmony CCTV for trial.

Thanks and sorry for the delay.