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Thanks for confirming that an X10 command works for you under EISY. It doesn't work for me (it used to work with my ISY). I gave up on the X10 siren and replaced it with an Insteon siren.

Just to update everyone who helped me: I received the Insteon siren today. I'm able to make it work acceptably. I'd prefer two different pitched beeps. High pitch for On, low pitch for Off. But unfortunately the siren doesn't support that. What the siren supports is a single beep that consists of two pitches Low/High. What I'm making do with is: On: one Low/High beep Off: two Low/High beeps Thank you to everyone who responded.

I was afraid it only had one sound that was usable for me (the siren is way too loud). I'm thinking I could create two different sounds by requesting ding-dong and ding-dong ding-dong. Have to test this out when the unit arrives.

Thank you for the suggestion. I am hesitant to spend anything on another X10 device since they don't seem to be working for me. My next step is to trial the Insteon siren and hope that meets my needs.

Thank you. I read the manual you linked exactly as you did. I created an EISY program with exactly the commands you listed. No sounds from the X10 siren. Tried multiple outlets, tried multiple sirens.

Interesting - didn't know that. Thank you.

@IndyMike Thank you for the reply. The X10 siren is an X10 SH10A Powerhorn. I had not noticed that I can send a house code without a unit code. That capability is available on the EISY as well. Thank you for pointing that out, and I modified the program to not send the unit code. Sadly, the siren still does not make any noise despite seeing the X10 commands in the EISY log, and seeing X10 responses in the log as well.

I am sending the commands from a program running on my EISY. I have no idea what it's doing under the hood other than the log entry I posted. There's no way to add a pause between address and bright. If I don't send the dim at all, it still doesn't work. I have no other X10 devices.

I've tried the siren in an outlet on the same wall as the PLM. No help.

It's trivial, but it doesn't help. Moving the X10 siren doesn't help. Perhaps that's true, but it's not the solution here. If I send only the bright command it still doesn't work.

I controlled an X10 siren from my ISY for years. Sometime after I upgraded to an EISY it stopped working. I don't know if that was related to the upgrade or if some change to my home's electrical system caused an issue. Anybody know the status of X10 support from EISY? Is there something I have to enable? If there's an A10/X10 module that needs to be added, I don't see how to do that - can't find any way to purchase modules. Help/Manage Modules just tells me all my modules are up to date. On the ISY, I had a program which issued the following: Send X10 "H6/Bright (7_) This caused the X10 siren to chime. I've also attempted to verify X10 functionality without using an EISY program by opening an ssh shell into the EISY and trying: send_x10 bright H6 but the shell reports that the send_x10 program is not present. I could not find out how to install the send_x10 program. It may be relevant that I had to switch the cable to the PLM when I upgraded to EISY. Any pointers on the above would be greatly appreciated. A bit more info after reading these forums: I triggered the EISY program to make the X10 siren chime. I can see in the Event Viewer that the PLM sent the X10 commands, and also received an X10 response. But the X10 device made no noise. I've tried two different X10 sirens and neither one worked. Sun 04/05/2026 23:49:39 : [ X10] H6 Sun 04/05/2026 23:49:39 : [ X10] H6/Bright (7) Sun 04/05/2026 23:49:39 : [ X10] H6 Sun 04/05/2026 23:49:39 : [ X10] H6/Dim (15) Sun 04/05/2026 23:49:39 : [X10-RSP ] 02 63 D9 00 06 Sun 04/05/2026 23:49:40 : [X10-RSP ] 02 63 D5 80 06 Sun 04/05/2026 23:49:41 : [X10-RSP ] 02 63 D9 00 06 Sun 04/05/2026 23:49:42 : [X10-RSP ] 02 63 D4 80 06

Yes, my old X10 chime was perfect. Disappointed that it stopped working. Even bought a second one as a test in case the first one had gone bad. No joy. It had two tones, I could make it go Ding or DingDong. I triggered it from my ISY to announce arm/disarm of an ISY program.

Thank you for that link. It is informative. Sounds like it won't quite do what I want: It doesn't have two different chime tones that I could separately trigger. There are warnings that make it sound like it is too loud for my purposes. I suppose I could buy one to test it out...