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Re: Snap!
- To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: Snap!
- From: nigel@xxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 19:39:11 -0000 (GMT)
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On 04-Jan-2001 Mark McCall wrote:
>> Putting a local switch on my appliance module did the trick, for
>> me
>> and my wife. I can see the problem, the only other ways of
>> turning
>> the bloomin things on and off are via Comfort's telephone menus or
>> the mini-timer at the bedside- neither of those seem to be a
>> particularly big advanced step from a 'switch'...
>
> Better to have the stuff switched on and/or off automatically then
> there's no need for manual switching.
I'd love that to be true, but in my house it's not unless you add the
word 'perfectly' before automatically...
HA is still developing, one of the things that isn't there yet is
knowing what the occupants want- sometimes I want a light off in a
room, sometimes I want it on, it's easier to communicate that to the
system via a switch than hunting round for a remote control or a
phone- I hope voice control will be a good replacement, but it's not
there yet, IMO.
If everything is automatic at the moment, life is constrained by the
controller, instead of it saving effort.
Nigel
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