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How to use an X10 dimmer switch with a motion sensor?


  • Subject: How to use an X10 dimmer switch with a motion sensor?
  • From: "Jonathan Doig" <Jonathan.Doig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:01:10 +1100

Hi all

I'm an X10 newbie, speccing electricals for our new house and would like
to use X10 to control lights from a remote and later on from an Ocelot
or similar.

I plan to use a standard (non-X10) motion sensor, because I haven't
found a wired X10 one and I want it 360 degree ceiling mounted anyway,
which I have available locally.

Then I want a simple-looking wall switch like the Advanced Control
Technologies TK334 (as long as it can run on 240V not 277??) and have it
work as follows:

* Touch ON: light goes on when motion sensor detects movement
* Touch ON again: light goes on regardless (motion sensor override)
* Touch OFF: light goes back onto motion sensor mode
* Touch OFF again: light goes off altogether

as well as:

* press-and-hold-ON: bright
* press-and-hold-OFF: dim

How can I do this? Is there a nice-looking (Decora or otherwise) wall
switch that can control two X10 addresses with one or two taps? Or could
I use the TK334 or similar, but with some macro-capable controller?

TIA
Jonathan

PS Apologies for cross-posting to several HA lists, but I'm up against a
tight deadline to sort this out before the builders plaster our walls in
for good (reminds me of an Edgar Allan Poe story...)
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