[PLUG] It worked yesterday...

[Terry Griffin]

Try resetting or power-cycling the X10 controller. If it has
battery backup you might have to pull the battery for a few seconds.

Also make sure the controller is not overheating. I once set my
old CP-290 controller on top of a modem. The little bit of extra
heat pushed it over the edge. But once it cooled off it's been
fine ever since, and that was seven years ago or more.

Terry

On Thu, December 13, 2007 7:36 am, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> I've been using cron to run my X-10 lighting controls for several
> months. Yesterday I added two lamp modules to control Christmas decoration
> lights. I also changed my crontab entries to reflect the lighting change.
> The lights operated as expected yesterday. This morning
> they don't.
>
> It seems that something has gone wrong with the x10 program, or
> something related to it. Any ideas on where to start looking?
>
> When I run the x10 program directly from the command line "nothing"
> happens for a minute or more, and then the command prompt returns with a
> message about mail. The mail message is:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>> From rsteff at Moonguide.House  Thu Dec 13 07:15:31 2007
>>
> Return-Path: <rsteff at Moonguide.House>
> X-Original-To: rsteff
> Delivered-To: rsteff at Moonguide.House
> Received: by Moonguide.House (Postfix, from userid 1000)
> id 840F12C5FD; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:15:31 -0800 (PST) From:
> rsteff at Moonguide.House To: rsteff at Moonguide.House
> Subject: Cron <rsteff at Moonguide>
> /home/rsteff/ShellScripts/Christmas-lights-on.sh
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/rsteff>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=rsteff>
> X-Cron-Env: <USER=rsteff>
> Message-Id: <20071213151531.840F12C5FD at Moonguide.House>
> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:15:31 -0800 (PST)
>
>
> x10: checksum error
> x10: checksum error
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Christmas-lights-on.sh contains:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # turn on Christmas tree and railing lights
>
>
> # turn on Christmas tree lights, k4
> /home/rsteff/bin/x10 turn k4 on
>
>
> # turn on railing lights in living room, k9
> /home/rsteff/bin/x10 turn k9 on
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> The current crontab is:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> # turn on lights
> #
> 0 7 * * * /home/rsteff/ShellScripts/Christmas-lights-on.sh 0 16 * * *
> /home/rsteff/ShellScripts/Christmas-lights-on.sh
> 30 16 * * * /home/rsteff/ShellScripts/x10-lights-on.sh
>
>
> #
> # turn off lights
> #
> 0 9 * * * /home/rsteff/ShellScripts/Christmas-lights-off.sh 59 23 * * *
> /home/rsteff/ShellScripts/Christmas-lights-off.sh
> 59 23 * * * /home/rsteff/ShellScripts/x10-lights-off.sh
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
>
> Dick Steffens
>
>
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