RE: X10 in Loo

["Ian B" <I.Bird@xxxxxxx>]

I picked up a handful of light sensors which I use to a) decide whether to
turn the light in question on and b) is everything off at night. Fiddly to
set up but works well. Of course the sensors were discontinued at M*****s
as
soon as I bought them.

Ian

-----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