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I installed the WGL receiver (V572) with a home brew antenna today in the attic. It puts the received signal on the powerline, and I am using using a Jeff Volpe Powered up version of the old X-10 powerline devices to make that powerline connection. Nice thing is the WGL receives all X-10 codes. (unlike the X-10 receivers that have to be set to a specific house code) Now I can stand 75 feet away from the house and eisy will respond to an X-10 command from a little key fob controller!

I had just found that, felt kinda silly... thanks though!!! You are a great help!!

Where might I locate the device support notes? ... search is not helping.

Yeah I did that, same nodes, what was the node that showed up on your entitled if I might ask?

That was it, for the new device anyway, I will revisit my old 6. Appreciate the info. I learn something every day.

Thanks... I usually put them right under the device in the tree is a folder I call "extras"😉 Was just odd to ONLY see unrelated nodes and nothing else, but then as a repeater it really doesn't matter. Thanks for your reply.

I had in place an Aeotec Door Window sensor 6, that worked with ISY. When I installed my eisy (a new new install no migration) and it came time to include it into my eisy network, I found it would pair, but gave me a bunch of nodes with empty boxes- with the exception of wake up, which shows "true". After doing some searching and reading, it seemed like maybe the z-wave system it uses was not compatible with the new Z wave standards used by eisy in their Z Matter dongle. Figuring that upgrading to ver 7 would solve that problem, I went ahead and purchased the same sensor in ver 7. Alas same problem. (Which if I can solve it might give me back the old sensor which I can readily use. Oh and, for the record I excluded both devices in the set up processes (even the new one) and then included them. I tried synchronizing them and updating etc, usually resulting in losing most nodes but one. Are these supported and/or any suggestions on their proper and compete inclusion. I an just feet away from the ZMatter dongle as I pair, so it is not a distance problem, unless one can be TOO close.

I was rummaging around in my box(es) of Home automation stuff, and ran across an Aeotec Range extender 6. I really have not observed any real problems with Z wave coverage but decided to at least have it installed in case I later determined there may be some areas needing Z wave help. I excluded it without issue, and followed the inclusion process lined out in the directions and it paired. A post pairing test function in the device report its health as "great". BUT, oddly when eisy paired to it is showed as a "dimmer switch" with a range of expected dimmer switch functions, and also as a "color switch" again with a range of adjustments of the 3 primary colors.! Now, of course I can just ignore these as they will never be used, but I was wondering is this common or is there something going on that should not be?

Great news! I can see the X10 commands, and more importantly use them coming in. Some background...even after a lot of my devices were not X10 "friendly", I could use Isy as a translator. Ex. If I wanted to turn on an attic fan, I could use an X10 remote to send, say an F1 command, Isy would see it on the power line thanks to an X10 transceiver, and a program would see " Receive X10 F1 ON" and turn on the Z wave controlled fan. This was more useful in the pre-Alexa days, but useful none the less - out of voice range from an Alexa device, or at a time and place where speaking would not be desired (Ex. Middle of the night in bed). insteon made some pretty cool desktop keypad devices, backlit even which were perfect. So my inability to receive and process X10 signals emanating outside eisy itself kind of eliminated that.... Nope. I read about a guy who majorly solved his X10 issues when he filtered his battery powered backup power supply. I did some current online search and found out what a noisy device they were on the powerline! This surprised me...stay with me.. I recently completed a 6kw backup power supply for my house, complete with necessary transfer switching. I had read how the harmonics from a generator might not be healthy for sensitive electronics. So I bought 3 relatively inexpensive UPS devices as they reportedly effectively manage the harmonics issues. (In exchange for creating other issues!) I have 2 installed. I just happened to have a couple of plug in powerline filters, so, I decided to check and give 'er a try. BINGO! I now am seeing ALL X10 signals on the event viewer and my X10 performance is majority improved. My brother in law lives next door in our rural area and walks his dogs at night. If I can get my VGL receiver up and running I plan to give him a key fob X10 transmitter to turn area lighting on and off as needed! My 2nd success story today!

Well, after reading the replies, I walked back through everything I had done to date. My Android Galaxy 23 was insured to have Location services always on! Here is the result, by my timing I entered the geo fence at 16 minutes past, almost exactly. When I got home it showed the geo fence bring triggered at 17:52, including the run program command. Not bad at all. I am taking the 2 minute suggestion of Javi as a rule of thumb when I want a desired result when I arrive home. I have increased my geofence radius to accomplish this. Thanks all. Everyone of you provided pieces of this solution. So grateful. On this new install I promised myself that if I encountered an issue I would not move forward until I had it fixed. I have another thread on the PLM and x10 reception I abandoned in violation of the promise to self.. And I got it solved too! A two-fer day. All thanks to information and ideas received here. Chris

I have been educating myself with help from the forum on geofencing and have been able to create a working geofence model. So, now I have a working geofence and have been able to use the boundary crossing to trigger events (at present, lights) using it. My question arises from a delay in the action triggered. I had tested out my programming, and lo and behold, it triggered on the lights...about 10 minutes after my arrival. Clearly there are considerations about delay. Any tips or suggestions on how to mitigate those, or give reasonable expectations for planning geofence use?

Got it. Very helpful. Appreciate both your and Sumguy' s assistance on all this.

Thanks. I had briefly looked at that another time for a different reason, but will go back and thoroughly digest it. So, just to make doubly sure I understand, if I have a state variable in an if statement, the if will trigger when that variable changes value, but otherwise not? What I am trying to avoid is the situation where I am sitting at home (with my state variable at 1) and then when 10 pm comes around, and the state variable is at 1 (unchanged) the program does NOT run. If I am understanding you correctly, it will not as it would be looking for a change in state commencing at 10 (or after).

One last thing...I learned something I did not know, that a disabled program WILL run if called by another program. One question in my mind, if a program contains a variable value in IF, does it only trigger if that variable has changed to that variable value? In other words if the IF line says IF variable X equals 1, and time is 10pm until 2 am, and if variable it sitting on 1 when 10 pm rolls around, will the program run?

Thanks .. very helpful. One thing I liked about Dbuss's solution was the out of the box idea of divorcing from the binary home/away state variable to broaden a number that could be used outside that binary paradigm. On the other hand your solution seems simpler. Ocam's Razor? I am tremendously grateful to you both. This is why I suggested a programming place on this forum. We all tend to get stuck and other ideas are fabulously helpful. Thanks to Administrator GEDDY for this!

All excellent points. I have a bunch of holiday lights I control using lamp controllers. I just will not bank on eisy giving me a schedule for them.

I will try that, great ideas. You have been so helpful!! Thank you, will report back.

I had also tried to put the program into another folder which only enabled running the program if "Chris is at Home "was 0. and then running the rest in the nested program, neither seemed to work. (leaving out of course, the first line of IF)

Here is what I had: Arrival Home - [ID 0020][Parent 0001] If $Chris_is_home is 0 And From Sunset To 11:00:00PM (same day) And $Chris_is_home is 1 Then Set 'Front Entry / Front Porch Light / ZY 012 Front Porch Light' On Set 'Front Entry / Entryway light / Entry way overhead light 011' On Set 'Side Deck Lights / Side Deck Lights' On Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

Thanks sumguy. Not sure I am fully understanding. Can you give me what each program function is..eg. Does the first program act to "weed out" turning lights on if I am already at home? What disables program 2? Sorry...I am just a little dense.

Yes, and somehow that did not work as expected. Also assume the situation where I am already home at sunset, not arriving home. I would not want it to run under that circumstance.

I managed to get some great help here and have a working geofence for home. I not only have the HOME node with my phoone showing if I am home or not. I also set up a state variable that varies with my occupancy between 0 and 1, depending. I don't seem to be able to write a program that will trigger lights coming on when I arrive home after dark. Does some one have examples of what they have done? Thanks

The issue is now, for me, of general or academic curiosity as I gave up on the X10 switch and put in a Zwave one that is working beautifully, and can also be used in a scene. I think I have so many signal suckers in my house that trying to filter them would be like playing whack a mole. II may use some X-10 where it works, but not planning to waste an entire day (as I have) trying to run down "why's? and how comes?. Thanks everyone for your assistance here, and it might be nice for a larger audience to know what the new PLM's can and cannot do. Chris

I do not see X10 events in eisy event viewer even when the PLM and Maxi Controller share the same outlet. The maxi controller is working as the light is on and I have verified x10 devices can respond to it.

Thanks IndyMike.... the Insteon question...does that required 2 SignalLincs? I have 1, but understand they are out of production for a 2nd one. I sort of lost interest years back when my isy install here started running into problems, it worked but I gave up with some issues. This time I will stop until have each current issue worked out. (I am also starting to wonder if some of my old Z Wave devices (mainly sensors) just were never designed to play nice with the current Z-Wave stuff and eisy... 'nother story, shelved until I get this figured out.) Oh, and, I just have a single meter.