x10 retransmit

Hello

Just got hold of a RFXtrx433 with a view to doing, amongst other things, X10 retransmission (so I can get rid of my ageing plug-in X10 RF receiver). With Indigo's natively supported X10 RF receivers there is an option on the configuration to retransmit received RF codes to the X10 serial interface transmitter - which is exactly what I want to do.

With the RFXCOM plug in it seems I would need to create an RFX X10 switch device for every X10 appliance device I have and have two trigger event on each of those RFX devices that retransmit the relevant X10 appliance command. And even then couldn't do dimmable lighting. That's obviously quite a bit of work - am I missing something?

If not, are there plans to include a retransmit in the RFXCOM plugin? Please? Pretty please

Ta

Nick

[matt (support)]

Hi Nick,

That would be a cool feature for the plugin.

Robert -- if you want to try adding this as an option when the plugin receives the RF X10 commands, here are python samples for sending X10 power line commands:

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indigo.x10.sendOn("A1")
indigo.x10.sendOff("A1")
indigo.x10.sendBrighten("A1", delta=15)
indigo.x10.sendDim("A1", delta=15)

Hi Matt,

Are these Indigo native X10 receivers available in Europe?
I don't know how to test and develop without a receiver.
Or do you have a suggestion?

Kind regards,

Robert

The X10 TM13 can be used.

Another option is to use the 2nd RFXtrx433 to receive the transmitted X10 commands.

[matt (support)]

The X10 send commands in the script above will work even if Indigo doesn't have a power line X10 interface connected to it. It won't send the commands on the power line obviously, but it will log the sends in the Event Log so you can see if it is working (it will show "offline" in the event log).

Robert

Did you ever give this a go, by any chance?

Nick