tmbrown97
Senior Member
I thought this might be good for a laugh... especially in light of this thread about what to do with your automation when you move.
In my last move, I ended up taking my M1 with me and hiding any signs that it ever existed... so I reinstalled it in the new house and I've been slowly hooking different stuff back up. A week or two ago I finally plugged the PIM into it for my UPB lights and got them working through the elk again - so I could use eK to turn my lights on/off from my phone.
Tonight as I get home, my wife asks some questions - like, "Why would the livingroom lights just turn on randomly at 5:30PM? I was laying down kinda sleeping with the kids when the lights popped on! Oh, and what about the bathrooms? I was in this one and they lights turned off on me! And the boy's room has been on and off at random times lately."
Well, when I moved, zones and lighting ID's changed - a lot! The rule that used to turn the exterior lights on just before sunset now matches the lighting ID of the livingroom lamp. If you're up too early in the morning, it'll also turn them off on you when the sun comes up (the daylight change seemed to trigger that one). As for the boy's room, it ended up with the lighting ID that used to be the garage - which had it set so if any of the 4 zones became non-secure, the lights turned on - for 20 minutes. And, if you walked into the room and turned the lights on, another timer kicked on to turn them off after 10 minutes if XXX zone wasn't triggered in that time. Of course, the 4 previous garage zones are now random other zones around the house - so something like opening the rear slider would turn on his bedroom lights.
Moral of the story - if you move your panel, hurry up and delete your old rules and tasks - or at least disable them! I'm just glad I didn't hook the outputs up to anything yet - what used to be a 10-zone sprinkler system could've been liable to set off the GE Screamers at 4:45AM!
In my last move, I ended up taking my M1 with me and hiding any signs that it ever existed... so I reinstalled it in the new house and I've been slowly hooking different stuff back up. A week or two ago I finally plugged the PIM into it for my UPB lights and got them working through the elk again - so I could use eK to turn my lights on/off from my phone.
Tonight as I get home, my wife asks some questions - like, "Why would the livingroom lights just turn on randomly at 5:30PM? I was laying down kinda sleeping with the kids when the lights popped on! Oh, and what about the bathrooms? I was in this one and they lights turned off on me! And the boy's room has been on and off at random times lately."
Well, when I moved, zones and lighting ID's changed - a lot! The rule that used to turn the exterior lights on just before sunset now matches the lighting ID of the livingroom lamp. If you're up too early in the morning, it'll also turn them off on you when the sun comes up (the daylight change seemed to trigger that one). As for the boy's room, it ended up with the lighting ID that used to be the garage - which had it set so if any of the 4 zones became non-secure, the lights turned on - for 20 minutes. And, if you walked into the room and turned the lights on, another timer kicked on to turn them off after 10 minutes if XXX zone wasn't triggered in that time. Of course, the 4 previous garage zones are now random other zones around the house - so something like opening the rear slider would turn on his bedroom lights.
Moral of the story - if you move your panel, hurry up and delete your old rules and tasks - or at least disable them! I'm just glad I didn't hook the outputs up to anything yet - what used to be a 10-zone sprinkler system could've been liable to set off the GE Screamers at 4:45AM!
