X10 commands and PBP

[aratti]

dhouston wrote: ..... Is that from Iriave? I have a TR-1A (IiRC)

Dave,
Yes, Iriave is the manufacturer, very likely TR-2A is the updated version of the TR-1A. The reed is anabled before X10 Tx and disable at the end. This works fine and I can Tx out all X10 codes. The problem is the X10 Rx which is reading the same value whatever X10 code you burst on the main. We have 50 Hz, (which should be better, since we have longer time for the burst, 10 millisec delay among zerocrossing while 60 hz has 8.33 millisecs).

ardhuru wrote: .....The reason I asked was, the delays incorporated in PBP for X10 commands assume a 60 Hz system; if you are in a 50 Hz country, you might have to tweak some values in the XIN and XOUT routines in the .lib files, especially if your transmitter and receiver are not on the same phase.

ardhuru, I don't think the main frequency matter, otherwhise I should not be able to burst out with the XOUT instruction.

ardhuru wrote: ..... When I design around X10 (my hardware directly interfaces with the mains), I do use the XOUT, but for receiving I decode the incoming signal manually.

if I read correctly your words, you did already experiment XIN without success, so you solved the problem decoding the X10 burst writing your own Rx routine. More explicitely "XIN instruction doesn't work" and forget about fixing PBP XIN instruction, write your own Rx routine.

Sounds very wise and realistic.

Thank you very much for your posting.

Al.