X-10 now reports to Vera

Community Playground General Discussions
#1

Vera is now reporting and keeping the status of an X-10 device, both via dashboard and iPhone.

I’ll do some testing this weekend to see if an X-10 device will execute a scene and toggle a Z-Wave device.

If so, this will open a new avenue for sensory inputs.

JOD.

#2

Which firmware version are you using? ::slight_smile:

#3

off to go find me a beta version… ;D

It also takes SOME of the complexity out of setting up a state device or flag.

You can just make random x10 id’s and use them for home/away, night/day, vacation/no vacation, etc…

#4

It’s ver 1.1.1086 which also supports the Aeon HEM.
One of my driveway X-10 motion sensors just tripped and it updated on the dashboard.

JOD.

#5

Cool. Sadly, our new house has proven to be X10-proof, which is why we’re on to Vera and Z-wave. If anyone has house wiring that is amenable to X10 and is interested, we have an assortment of X10 switches, modules, CM11A and equivalents that I would part with cheaply. I even have a hardly-used ELK X10 signal meter that I was using to debug using stuff in the new house before I gave up. If you’re interested, drop me a note.

–Richard

#6

[quote=“JOD, post:4, topic:166735”]It’s ver 1.1.1086 which also supports the Aeon HEM.
One of my driveway X-10 motion sensors just tripped and it updated on the dashboard.

JOD.[/quote]

Where does one go to get this version of the firmware? Sounds like the X-10 functionality is greatly improved with this release.

#7

[quote=“rlmalisz, post:5, topic:166735”]Cool. Sadly, our new house has proven to be X10-proof, which is why we’re on to Vera and Z-wave. If anyone has house wiring that is amenable to X10 and is interested, we have an assortment of X10 switches, modules, CM11A and equivalents that I would part with cheaply. I even have a hardly-used ELK X10 signal meter that I was using to debug using stuff in the new house before I gave up. If you’re interested, drop me a note.

–Richard[/quote]

Email sent…

Mike

#8

[quote=“Houston HomeTech, post:7, topic:166735”][quote=“rlmalisz, post:5, topic:166735”]Cool. Sadly, our new house has proven to be X10-proof, which is why we’re on to Vera and Z-wave. If anyone has house wiring that is amenable to X10 and is interested, we have an assortment of X10 switches, modules, CM11A and equivalents that I would part with cheaply. I even have a hardly-used ELK X10 signal meter that I was using to debug using stuff in the new house before I gave up. If you’re interested, drop me a note.

–Richard[/quote]

Email sent…

Mike[/quote]

Mike, I haven’t seen your mail–and it’s been a few hours. I’ve checked and it doesn’t look like it gotten eaten by any sort of spam filter. You might try again, if you don’t mind.

–Richard

#9

PM sent, let’s see how that works.

Mike

#10

So JOD, does this mean that if someone turns off an X-10 light switch manually, this change of status will be show up on the MIOS dashboard? If so, that would be very cool.

#11

So JOD, does this mean that if someone turns off an X-10 light switch manually, this change of status will be show up on the MIOS dashboard? If so, that would be very cool.[/quote]

not unless the x-10 light was the kind that transmits a change (not many did)- BUT what you can do is use an x-10 controller/remote to send a command to the light to turn off and the insteon controller ‘hears’ the command on the line and updates vera.

There are many x-10 devices that can send such commands- as an example you can get a motion detector that would send an ‘on’ command to a particular device. You can make a bogus x-10 device in vera- say device I1 and call it “intruder”- then you set the x-10 motion sensor to send an on command to device i1. If the x-10 sensor sends the on command to i1 then the vera will show the “intruder” device to on. and you could then setup a scene that turns on all the lights in your house when the “intruder” device is on.

#12

JOD- can you delete an X10 device after you create it?

I can delete from the devices advances tab- scroll down and find the delete button.

But if I try to click the trash icon it just says command successful but does nothing.

#13

michaelk,

Yes you can, just click the delete button at the bottom of the Advanced tab.
The device should disappear. Try Ctrl F5 if not.

JOD.

#14

yep- that way works but for me at least if I click the trash button up top in UI4 it doesn’t delete. (top right corner is x to close, question mark for help then trash can to delete.

For other devices on UI4 the trashcan works for me to delete- but doesn’t seem to work for x-10.

Before i submitted a bug i wanted to see if anyone else saw the same thing.