HouseBot

I am a very Newbie to HouseBot and I am trying something simple. I have a lamp on a LM465 lamp module set up through a CM11a. I have made a device that is called Lamp and I can go to the "Direct X10 Command" and turn it on and off. this works fine so I know that the confguration is somewhat correct.



I then made a script device called LampSlow that has the following script attached.



SetPropertyValue "Lamp.Direct X10 Command", "Off"

For nLevel = 1 to 32

SetPropertyValue "Lamp.Direct X10 Command", "Bright;1"

TraceMessage("Sent Bright Command")

Sleep( 1000 )

Next



I expected it to turn off the lamp and the slowly bring it to full brightness. What I see is that the lamp turns off and then in a second or two goes to full brightness. When I look at the log I see a bunch of "Sent Bright Command" entries. I can also see that the script takes about 30 seconds to run, so it seems to be going through the whole script.



What am I doing wrong? I have tried this with two differnt LM465's to make sure that it is not a hardware thing.



Can I do what I want?



Stevendm

The X10 hardware is not able to brighten from off, only dim down.

Meaning that they have to go to full brightness, then dim down to whatever dim level you want.



If you purchase one of the Smarthome lamp modules / switches those are able to brighten from off.. so you can go from off to whatever dim level you want.



I'm in the process of swapping out some X10 switches with the ICON switches ($20). They're VERY nice, can dim locally and brighten up to a level. X10 switches can't.



Just my two cents. :)