X10 Manual Control

[Raymond <Reb.barnett@xxxxxxx>]

Could somebody explain how local manual control of X10 units is supposed
to work?

I ask because I thought that the lamp and appliance modules were
supposed to offer a degree of local control - you can manually switch on
a lamp by switching the lamp's own on-off switch off then back on again,
which should cause the X10 unit to switch on.

However I've never been able to get this to work with an appliance
module. The lamp module in the dining room stopped working automatically
last night, and since I was busy I didn't try to identify why it didn't
come on, but instead switched the lamp off and back on again, which
successfully switched it on. However the X10 unit then completely
stopped responding to X10 events - when we went to bed it did not switch
off. The resolution in the end was to switch the X10 lamp module off at
the wall, and then back on - effectively 'resetting' it - it now works
find again.

Is this the way they are supposed to work? i.e. once you've activated
manual control they don't respond to any X10 events, and hence require
resetting? It's a pain since my modules aren't terribly accessible
(which is why I've used them in some cases).

Ray.

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