Re: Controllerless distributed automation

["David Paterson (Pixi)" <david.paterson@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 23:37:03 -0000, you wrote:

>All the projects I do are to add convience etc to our way of life (the
>family) however, if I introduced something which meant that if my PC or
>HomeVision was out of action then they could not use the lights TV etc
I
>would never be able to implement it, what I am trying to say is all the
>items should be able to operate manually or the wife would go berserk
:)

That's an important consideration too - I'm planning on putting manual
control or by-pass on everything, and trying to design them to be
failsafe and with "graceful degradation" in the event of
failures.

I don't have to worry about WAF since it's just me in the place, but it
still has to have a backup system in case of problems.

DP

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