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RE: X10 in Loo


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  • Subject: RE: X10 in Loo
  • From: "Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:05:01 -0000
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Hmmm ... even my crappy ActiveHome X10 setup is able to read the status of
the X10 modules that I have when I load up the software.

I would have thought that Marks much more sophisticated HomeVision system
would have no problems...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tracey.gardner [mailto:tracey.gardner@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 18 January 2001 16:47
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] X10 in Loo
>
>
>
> Sorry Mark but I'm going to play Devil's advocate here! :-)
>
> When you press your one button on going to bed at night surely
> you can't "know" all the lights in the house are out?
> I didn't think that X10 did hand shaking yet?
>
> Your X10 system surely relies upon the electronics doing their
> stuff in the same way that Nick relies upon the electronics in
> his Ecoswitch?
>
> I can see a possible "advantage" in only having the loo
light come
> on when it is dark outside, but if other people's loos are like
> ours, they are pretty dim places all the time and would benefit from
> having the light turned on whether it was light outside or not.
> Presumably you've got a manual overide switch in the loo if you
> decide that it's not light enough?
>
> Like Nick I'd find it hard to justify X-10 over an Ecoswitch in a loo.
>
>
> Tracey
>
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