Posted: 01 December 2010 at 8:35pm | IP Logged

Hi All,

Im looking for advice and suggestions for my lighting.

At the moment i have a number of LD11's mounted in a consumer unit for each lights.  a few have the required terminals connected to relevant momentary switches.

However the operation of the switches does not update the harmoy interface.  In order to over come this i was thining of connecting each momentary switch to a SM10E power flash module and set these up with independant address.  i could then configure harmony to turn the respective light modules on when a signal from a powerflash module has been recived.  The downside to this is i will need to use harmony or some other X10 controler to set the DIM / BRIGHT level.

So i just wondered how others had implemented their light and how you use it.  ill hopefully get the lights finished before the new year

Posted: 02 December 2010 at 1:30pm | IP Logged

Hi techno

From what I gather in reading between the lines its just a simple matter of getting a new CM12 unit that will request an update on the status of your DIN rail mounted X-10 units.

Now the question is whether Harmony is presently able to request a stautus update... Rob may have designs on the additional code needed.

Lenny

Posted: 02 December 2010 at 2:02pm | IP Logged

Hi Lenny,

The thought of a CM12 never crossed my mind, should Harmony be able to request a status, are the LD11's capabable of responding to a status request?

Also i would then loose the ability to disable individual lights through harmony.

Thanks

Posted: 07 December 2010 at 4:57pm | IP Logged

Hi Techno,

I'm hoping Homer will respond to this thread he is the hardware guru  I have a full set of LD11's in my installation and these are swithched by Harmony or my momentary switches which use a pulse to change the status. I cna't remember which post I saw it on but there was some discussion of getting a status update on devices. *Earth Calling Homer - Come in Homer* (in "Mork and Mindy" fashion - for those old enough to remember the series)

Posted: 07 December 2010 at 6:31pm | IP Logged

Hi Homer,

Thanks for the response's   As i dont have that many rooms to play with i may go down the powerflash route just for the rooms where i already have momentary switchs.  This will then allow me to inform harmony that the room is in use. On exitiing the room all devices in the room can then be powered down.  Indiviualy devices can be controlled via MCE

Rooms that do't have switches yet, well i suppose i'll have to see how important those rooms are for a powerflash module.  Kitchen, Bathroom, Hallway  may just go down the PIR route for these.

I would prefer harmony to be in control and action all request, that way my events will rule the house