New Furnace Room Light adventure

[Steve Hume]

On Jan 8, 2007, at 7:32 AM, James Sentman wrote:

> On Jan 7, 2007, at 9:06 PM, Steve Hume wrote:
>
>> Trouble #2)
>> I opened one of the 2-way appliance modules that I bought during a  
>> fall sales deal; PAM22 is the unit type. I went to add the new  
>> unit to XTension and found that I could not check smart box  
>> without setting the dimmable box! But Appliance modules are not  
>> dimmable and I have not determined whether they are smart,  
>> although it did send this
>> Sun, Jan 7, 2007 7:33:00 PM Received extended code for Furnace  
>> Light Command = 55 Data = 16
>> Sun, Jan 7, 2007 7:33:00 PM Setting value of Furnace Light to 16
>> when I plugged in the PAM22 with no lamp plugged into it.
>> Shouldn't XTension allow non-dimmable smart units?
>>
>
> Tthere is a little tiny problem with some of the UI code in that  
> window. What you need to do is to click to a different unit type.  
> Switch to "security" and then back to "X10" and it will leave the  
> smart button enabled for you to click. That problem I'm pretty sure  
> was fixed in one of the betas, and it's a totally different  
> interface to it in the next version coming up so the problem will  
> go away.
Thanks, that did the trick. I had to uncheck the receive only that is  
a side effect of going through the security mode.

I was a little surprised about the local sense. I will have to look  
at all the extended codes to see what they mean. Perhaps another wish  
list item is that XTension log does the decode of the bits.

Steve Hume