17 hours ago17 hr 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 H6but 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] H6Sun 04/05/2026 23:49:39 : [ X10] H6/Bright (7)Sun 04/05/2026 23:49:39 : [ X10] H6Sun 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 Edited 17 hours ago17 hr by hspindel
13 hours ago13 hr I saw your question on the X10 forum and I agreed. In my post there.Try moving the module to different places to see if you have a power line signal issue.
11 hours ago11 hr 6 hours ago, hspindel said: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] H6Sun 04/05/2026 23:49:39 : [ X10] H6/Bright (7)Sun 04/05/2026 23:49:39 : [ X10] H6Sun 04/05/2026 23:49:39 : [ X10] H6/Dim (15)Sun 04/05/2026 23:49:39 : [X10-RSP ] 02 63 D9 00 06Sun 04/05/2026 23:49:40 : [X10-RSP ] 02 63 D5 80 06Sun 04/05/2026 23:49:41 : [X10-RSP ] 02 63 D9 00 06Sun 04/05/2026 23:49:42 : [X10-RSP ] 02 63 D4 80 06@hspindel ,The EISY and plm appear to be doing their jobs. The Top 4 entries in the viewer (green) are the EISY sending the X10 commands to the PLM.The Bottom 4 entries (blue) are the PLM echoing the commands back to the EISY. Presumably the PLM put the commands on the powerline.As @Brian H and @oberkc have indicated, try moving the Siren closer to the PLM to rule out signal absorption.Not sure if you need a delay between the bright and dim commands.
3 hours ago3 hr Author 10 hours ago, oberkc said:How hard is it to move the chime module closer to the PLM?It's trivial, but it doesn't help.10 hours ago, Brian H said:I saw your question on the X10 forum and I agreed. In my post there.Try moving the module to different places to see if you have a power line signal issue.Moving the X10 siren doesn't help.7 hours ago, IndyMike said:@hspindel ,Not sure if you need a delay between the bright and dim commands.Perhaps that's true, but it's not the solution here. If I send only the bright command it still doesn't work.
3 hours ago3 hr Author 7 hours ago, IndyMike said:@hspindel ,As @Brian H and @oberkc have indicated, try moving the Siren closer to the PLM to rule out signal absorption.I've tried the siren in an outlet on the same wall as the PLM. No help.
2 hours ago2 hr The small siren. Need the X10 address sent and then the bright or dim command. Did you send the address than a small pause to the dim or bright?Do you have any other X10 devices that are still OK? If others also stopped working then I would suspect something changed power line problems.
1 hour ago1 hr Author 25 minutes ago, Brian H said:The small siren. Need the X10 address sent and then the bright or dim command. Did you send the address than a small pause to the dim or bright?Do you have any other X10 devices that are still OK? If others also stopped working then I would suspect something changed power line problems.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.
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