RE: Baby paws?

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Pedro,

The "baby paws" output would go high on the start of the first
ring, but
stay high for 10 seconds after the first ring ended. However, within
this 10 seconds, the second ring would have happened, so it would stay
high for 10 seconds from the end of that... by which time the third ring
would have happened....

As such, its output = Homevision's Input goes high ONCE (at the start of
the first ring), and goes low ONCE (ten seconds after the end of the
last ring.) This is true whether the phone rings for 2 seconds or 200
seconds!


As you say, the pathalogical case is that one person stops calling, then
another starts almost immediately. In this case, the output doesn't
manage to go low, so the next call can't push it high again... The setup
I'm proposing doesn't cope with that, except that manual tuning should
allow the time delay to be set to "just longer than the time between
two
rings on the same call".

Regards,

Mark Harrison
Head of Systems, eKingfisher

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-----Original Message-----
From: Pedro de Oliveira [mailto:oliveirp@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 December 2001 14:36
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Baby paws?


Mark

That makes sense now.  Thanks for clearing that up.

What would happen if the "baby paws" was set a delay of 10
seconds and
the
person ringing let the phone ring for say 18 seconds, would the macros
trigger more than once (I assume you only want them to trigger once).
If
this is true and you set the delay to say 25 seconds and two people
phoned
within the 25 seconds would no macro trigger for the second call??

Pedro

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 December 2001 14:33
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Baby paws?

I'm going to be using it between the "Ring Indicator" pin on an
old
(therefore cheap) modem, and Homevision.

As such, when the phone starts rining, one of the HV input ports will go
high, trigerring a macro. When the phone stops ringig, the input port
will go low, triggering a different macro.

Without the device, the macros would all trigger on _each_ "bring
noise"
rather than just once.

Yes, I know I could sort this out with use of HV timers and flags, but
the device is so cheap that I'd rather pay for it than spend an evening
mucking around with HV programming.


Mark Harrison
Head of Systems, eKingfisher

-----Original Message-----
From: Pedro de Oliveira [mailto:oliveirp@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 December 2001 14:22
To: HA (ukha_d@xxxxxxx)
Subject: [ukha_d] Baby paws?


I've just been reading the automatedhome news page and found "baby
paws".  What exactly could it be used for?  I'm sure there is a
feature
rich idea behind it, but I can't put my finger on what a device that
delays a signal would be useful for?

Am I missing something - please enlighten me

Cheers
Pedro

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