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BeachBum
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Posted: May 31 2007 at 11:44 | IP Logged Quote BeachBum
Is there any way to know when a power failure has occurred? It seems that Insteon devices will recover but X10 will recycle as off. Using a laptop for PH will not detect the failure as they usually run on battery when power is off. I don’t know if the PowerLinc will notify when the power comes back on other than the PC does a discovery. In the old days we had a way to recover when using JDS and CP290 PLCs. Any thoughts ???

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Posted: May 31 2007 at 22:11 | IP Logged Quote MrGibbage
I have my elk check the status of the power for my PC every two minutes. If it's not running, it tries to start it. I just put a 12V relay on one of the spare molex connectors and wire the contacts to the elk inputs. Then I wired an Elk output relay across the power switch. If the relay is open when I check for it, then I close the power switch for one second. Easy.

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I haven't given this much thought until now. Please give us (me) a bit more detail on how you do this.

The 12V relay across what/where? And, how do your checks work? They check for voltage? or for PH program operation? Any more details here would be appreciated.

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Posted: June 01 2007 at 10:24 | IP Logged Quote BeachBum
Interesting thought, when I unplug the PowerLinc and re-plug I get the following response in the SDM log.

usbarrival=4287,4,1024,SmartHome,SmartHome PowerLinc USB E,
PLC:eventraw=FE
PLC:saladapp=busy
PLC:eventraw=FD
PLC:eventraw=FE
text=TimerApp Running

PLC:salad=initialized
PLC:eventraw=00
PLC:eventraw=FE
PLC:saladapp=free

I wonder if there is anything posted in PH one could trigger from.


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