Girder receive X10

[Mrodseth]

I use Girder5 and netremote2 to control my X10 devices and AV and this is working 100%. Recently I purchased someX10 units, a motion detector to detect movements in my hallway and a Device to detect my door bell. These show up as random X10 addresses in the log display in Girder. I can’t tell what is what.
I have read that it’s possible to bridge Girder with other software like homeseer witch can both receive and send X10, but this seams complicated and very unnecessary to me. Are there any simpler solutions than this? If not, does anybody have any experience bridging Girder with Homeseer? I’ve gotten as far as installing Homeseer2 and hsgirder, (plug-in in homeseer).
Is it possible to simply bridge Girder with Activehome?

My scripting and programming skills are very poor so I was really locking for simpler solutions than installing another automating program in addition to Girder, but any help I can get is welcome.
My software is Girder 5, Netremote 2 and a cm11 USB computer interface running on a PC with K9A2 platinium motherboard, no com port.

[Ron]

You can assign some friendlier names to the events by using the event mapper. Is that what you are looking at doing?

You won't need any other automation program besides Girder.

[jwilson56]

I use X10 motion sensors with Girder 5 now to turn on lights when I enter the room. The wife loves the one in the laundry room. What X10 receiver are you using? I use the W800 RF unit myself as it also supports the DS10a units as well as having much better range than most other solutions

http://www.wgldesigns.com/w800.html

Its been awhile but I think I just grabbed the B2 ON in the logger and used it with an action to turn on the light. I also use it to display an animated GIF on my lighting control screen to show motion in the room - see my showcase for screenshots)

What are you seeing in the logger?

No need to use Homeseer at all (my copy of Homeseer 2 has been inactive for 2 years now since I switched to Girder 5).

[Mrodseth]

Hi thanks for the replies.
I get the same address in the logger for my doorbell detector as I get for my hallway motion detector, that’s my problem.
I haw given the units different addresses of course.
To pause a movie and dim up lights when the doorbell rings, but not when the hallway motion detector detects motion, wood be cool and make me the king of automation among my friends on my next party:D

[Mrodseth]

An old thread in Promixis LLC Forums, Promixis, LLC Forums > Old software > Girder 3.3 > Weird problem with CM11 X10 plugin, seams to address the same problem

I use CM11a with the software USB to serial com port which came with the CM11a. Maybe this doesn’t work well with girder?

[Mrodseth]

This is what shows up in logger
X10 M:ALL LIGHTS OFF
X10 X10 M1
X10-CM1X M_1_AllLightsOff

[ddxfish]

Its hard to tell what you are asking, but I use a VERY similar setup with girder 5.

I used to use activehome in conjunction with girder. Then i switched to heyu for linux, and used that with girder. I did both of these by using the 'File Execute' action, and it was a pain to keep up with.

Homeseer has a command line control program that will let Girder communicate with homeseer (i think its like HSC.exe) but if you know how, Girder will do everything you need and more.

I switched all my x10 in and out events to girder 5, getting rid of all my other home automation software. (activehome, homeseer, heyu on a VM)

For example, my doorbell uses the x10 trigger E2 ON to execute my girder macro for the doorbell. All I had to do was add an event to the action/macro you want to trigger, set
Event Device: Raw:x10-cm1x
event string: to E_2_On

Hope that helps.