Sold by texas home automation and ships from amazon fulfillment. A serial port in the pc unit hosting the openremote controller is required. Dont use the drivers that come with firecracker they will crash you computer. Document history this page is a derivative of the work woody usandthem home automation information. Drivers for iguanaworks, firefly, cm15a, and cm19a libusb drivers are now fully signed and will install on windows 8 and 10 without disabling driver signing. Connecting cm15a homeseer message board homeseer forum. That seems to make a big difference on keeping the hca driver. The main driver is pretty much the same for all these devices. I want to be able to control a couple of 110v appliances from labview using these devices, and everything ive found relates to the older cm11a which has been replaced by this newer unit. In the interfaces category, press the configure button, choose cm15a as the type and press the connect button. There are two versions of the cm15a driver out there. Support for cm15 activehome pro usb controller homeseer. Its ability to receive all sixteen rf housecodes makes it perfect for use as a universal rf tranceiver.
The cm15a can be set to not transceive the x10 rf signals so you may have to use ahp to set all the house codes or the house code you care to use for it to pass on the signals. What are the real differences between cm11a and cm15a. I think thats only necessary if you want to keep the hid module and do the fancy footwork to get the cm15a driver on its blacklist. The cm15a can receive messages from rf security devices such as the ds10a doorwindowcontact sensor so a separate rf receiver is not required. Originally taken from the x10 web page, for the cm11a dec 25, 1996. When the sdk becomes available it may be good replacement for the cm11a cm19a combination, but otherwise i do not see much application in the homeseer environment. All i need x10 to do is turn on some lights at the start of the show and turn them back off at the end. Works with xp, vista, windows 7, 8, and 10 32 and 64 bit windows operating systems. Go to the x10 website and download firecracker x10 software. Quick note on installing the modules the install directions mention rebuilding the kernel. X10 cm11a activehome serial computer interface new x10 ebay.
Yes it says iplc, thats because i create a distribution for the labjack, cm19a, cm15a and the insteon usb plc. The big difference is that each had different usb ids. Heyu is an open source program for controlling the cm11a interface. Web print window s samsung scx 3200 is a afghani window member queue download that grinds you to get a tamil enduser with one redistributable always. My preliminary tests show that the cm15a has about the same plc signal level as the cm11a. Parts of activehome pro the main activehome pro window has. Letting windows find and install the correct driver for your particular pc is. Id love to be able to provide an ni supported standard driver for the cm15a. Dont know how a cm19a rf interface and tm751 transceiver would be a cm15a replacement. We can hope that some enterprising person will eventually be able to decipher it. Cm11a usb driver download you can try any or all software titles as often as you want on as many pcs as you want totally free. Yes, the x10 cm15a usb controller is supported using the mochad linux device driver.
Current usb driver for the cm15a, cm19a, insteon usb plc and labjack all in one place. The cm11a controller will operate fine for one two years then its timing function goes wacko. The cm15a has both a rf receiver and transmitter in it. The cm11a activehome serial computer interface can be moved to any outlet you choose after program. Ri is used to uzb a power line command is being cm11a. It should connect ok and display the firmware version. Cm15a has a much larger internal memory to store downloaded. It can also be used to receive commands from x10 motion sensors and remote controls, and works with all x10 software such as x10s.
Download specialized usb drivers for supported dongle hardware. I suspect that the macro download protocol will be the same as the cm11a s macro protocol. At least i can communicate with my cm15a again and set up times again. The rf components are third party daughterboards that appear to be from keymark in taiwan. If a person is using the cm11a they may want to look into home domination. I understand the reason is that x10 never released the cm15a protocol like they did for the cm11a. Basically, it turns the living room lights on in the evening and everything off much later. Yes the cm15a or any x10 transceiver should send x10 power line signals back on the power lines to be received by the plm that is connected to the isy994i. The cm11a can also be used with the cm15a activehome pro software sw31a version 3. The title for this entry is x10 activehome professional. If you have already connected and configured the hardware and it. I have an x10 cm11a two way computer interface handling the very very very few scheduled events for our house. Usb driver for cm15a new topic reply to topic printer friendly.
X10 genuine cm11a activehome serial computer interface pre. Use it to control x10 cameras including the ninja and vanguard, with the appropriate software, lights and other modules. Heyu uses the cm11a computer interface to send and receive x10 control signals. Ed electronics workbench, home ec, pc tweakage, software 20100330 20100310. Physically, the cm15a is about one inch wider and one inch longer than the cm11a and lacks the feedthrough outlet that was on the cm11a. Openremote controller can directly support cm11a serial port communication without additional bridge software or devices.
X10 activehome professional free download and software. There is a command to disable it but that also disables. Macros can be downloaded to the cm15a which allows it to run without a pc. If i run the device manager and look at thedriver it indicates that the device is working properly. Here is how i got it working in case it helps anyone. Download files for the latest version of ircommand2, documentation, and add ons.
Plug in the cm19a and let windows update find the driver automatically. Sorry to see the x10 line is in financial straights sort lof. Cm15a windows xp driver rs serial cable is included. Wordpress, x10 activehome pro techcrunch del financing. Heyu server software and a x10 shell script installed on your linux box. To do this, first unplug the adapter and then uninstall the adapter software. X10 brand model number cm11a activehome serial computer interface. Cm19a select cm15a as interface cp10 beta universal devices isy99 select cm15a as interface xtb232 select cm11a as interface and uncheck automatically adjust time of interface in order to use it with the cm15a interface, the activehome pro sdk is needed if you dont have the activehome pro software installed. Ancient cm11a x10 controller pinout the smell of molten. Connect hca to the cm15 now we are finally ready to start hca. The cm11a activehome serial computer interface is fully 2way, both capable of transmitting onto and receiving x10 commands from the ac power line. X10 cm15a support lor s2 software suite lightorama. Anyway, in trying to resolve that, i intended to reinstall the driver and. These are just the drivers for the va11a and va12a.
I dont have a cm15 but would happy to write a driver for linuxmce by either intergrating support within the cm11a driver or adding a new driver. With x10s demise, it is also possible that information might come to light because the economic reason to keep it secret no longer exits. The cm11a can also be used with the cm15a activehome pro software sw31a. I use a cm11a as my main interface and a cm15a elsewhere in the house as a tranceiver. Cm15a the cm15a is x10s latest plc interface, introduced in late 2004. It incorporates a 310mhz rf receiver, a 310mhz rf transmitter and a twoway plc interface. Later versions of ahp can be used on a cm11a and it has limited memory for downloads. Sw31a activehome pro software for the cm15a usb and cm11a serial pc interface.
Tech support does not know anything about an sdk for it. Ancient cm11a x10 controller pinout the smell of molten projects in the morning. I tested it with the x10 sdk, using the xtb232 for a powerline interface. X10 cm11a is a bidirectional rs232 serial interface between your pc or orb and the powerline. Download files for the latest version of ircommand2, documentation, and addons. Ircommand2 downloads the source for all file downloads. I have been trying to interface a cm15a interface to ahp on a system running windows 8. Cm15a, this is the driver required to use the x10 cm15a dongle with ircommand2.
They said they have several cm15a units in their lab for testing and it has never been a problem. There seems to be a communication problem between the driver and the ahp progrom. Activehome pro puts everything you need to control your lights and appliances in panes that are easy to access. Control any x10 module in your home from your computer. Thinking home server software installed on your mac. Im going to try to hack some cm15a support into lor using the windows command function and.
If windows update is replacing our required usb driver then see support page for how to disable driver update. The software installation process will install the driver for your cm15a. Just wondering if anyone has any experience interfacing the x10 cm15a, which is a usb transmitter for the x10 home automation units. The datasheet for the rf receiver used in the cm15a indicates that it can be tuned from 310mhz to 418mhz with no change in any other components. If windows tells you it has found an unknown device when you plug in the cm15a activehome pro interface, please follow these steps. Letting windows find and install the correct driver for your particular pc is going to be the best option. X10 cm11a activehome serial computer interface can work with cm15a pro software ebay. Cm11a usb driver contact the seller opens in a new window or tab and request a shipping method to your location. I mentioned by cm11a usb the cm15a will transcode all wireless housecodes and transmit them to plc automatically unless this behavior is changed with ahp. They also indicate that the cm15a has auto retransmit after sensing a collision. Capable of managing up to 256 devices, so youll have no problem with expandability. It appears not to have the problem that the cm11a did of a dangling communication cable sending arbitrary x10 codes. The usb pc transceiver sends and receives x10 radiofrequency commands from your pc. Realtek high definition audio driver is a system utilities cm15a activehome x10 pro 2 created by realtek semiconductor corp.