Re: plea from poor X10 user

[Raymond <Reb.barnett@xxxxxxx>]

My biggest problem is getting the carpet back down neatly. The guy who
fitted our new carpets had a clever stretcher tool to tension the =
carpet
then push the edge of the carpet over the gripper board and under the
skirting.=20

Any recommendations on how best to acheive this effect without a
stretcher tool (costing over =A3500 apparently) - I daren't lift =
carpets
at the minute since I'm dead if I can't get them back as perfectly as
before. I cheated last time by putting cables down shortly before a new
carpet was fitted, so I used the 'while you're here' trick.

I couldn't fit enough cables because I used up all my time trying to =
run
them between the downstairs cupboard and upstairs - I had to resort to
carving a run through the stairs which was just big enough for 2 CAT5
cables. I was stumped as to how all the other pipe work and wiring =
jumps
floors... (this in a 1930s house).

Ray.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nigel.orr@xxxxxxx [mailto:nigel.orr@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 26 July 1999 15:10
> To: REB.Barnett@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: plea from poor X10 user
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> At 14:29 26/07/99 +0100, you wrote:
> >> Nice, easy and wireless don't seem likely to coexist for a=20
> while yet...
> >I think wireless is all set to become big over the next 3-5=20
> years - long
> >neck sticking out :-)
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> 10 maybe- short stubby neck staying put ;-).  There just=20
> doesn't seem to be
> the capacity for it to be widespread.  There's not really a=20
> good technical
> reason why X10 couldn't be a good usable system, just that it=20
> doesn't take
> advantage of modern comms knowledge to give a reliable link. =20
> So if there
> is an interferer (neighbours system or electrical noise=20
> source), you lose
> performance/reliability.  It is probably rare to get a false=20
> control or
> switching message (because of the house codes and=20
> repetition), but it seems
> easy to lose genuine commands, with no feedback...
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> It is 'do-able' now to have a complete RF system at=20
> 418/433/868MHz, with
> video distribution at 2.4GHz, right up to the point when your=20
> neighbour
> gets one too and yours is suddenly a bit less reliable.  It=20
> happened to
> portable phones, and 10 years later they're reliable, usable=20
> and reasonably
> secure.  I can't see it happening much faster for wireless,=20
> whatever the
> pundits say...
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> >> No, I _know_ I will never want a computer in my bedroom.
> >
> >What about a LCD Touchscreen?
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> Maybe, but _very_ unlikely- I appreciate that for some it is=20
> nice to see
> how busy the roads are before leaving bed, but that doesn't=20
> apply to me...
> it might be nice to have TV/video, but not for a _long_=20
> while.  I can look
> back over 2-3 years and see how much that I'd hoped/planned=20
> for actually
> had time and money for it to get done- and think of the=20
> couple of hours it
> might take in 5 years time in a 100-yr-old house to throw in=20
> a few more
> cables... so I can take a bit more time to set up cable=20
> routes rather than
> spending more money on copper and less on toys to connect it to! =20
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> I guess this is different for some (most?) people, in modern=20
> houses, with
> chipboard floors, limited attic space, basically very tightly=20
> specified,
> but in a turn of the century terrace, for someone who can=20
> cope with lifting
> floorboards and making good neatly afterwards, a bit of cable=20
> running isn't
> so terrible...
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> I'm currently preparing the 'wiring closet'/equipment=20
> cupboard, which has a
> straight run to the attic or the space under the first floor,=20
> with easy
> access to most rooms.  But, having spent a few hours in my in-laws
> 15-yr-old house runing in a single phone extension, my house=20
> is probably
> the exception, rather than the rule...
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> >> I suppose there is an argument for being able to play games
in bed
> >You don't need a computer for that ;-))
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> You might if your wife spends her time in bed typing letters :-P
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> Nigel
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