Re: IR t X10 WAS - Pront or Marantz, which one is best?

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 03 July 2001 18:00 pm, you wrote:
> Hi Dave
>
> I would consider the all house code IR t  X10 thingy rather than the
> standard single house code, 16 units one. Having the all house code
one I
> now find lots of uses for the extra codes like turning on the
watering,
> setting the heating or boosting it as well as all the usual lights and
> appliances. I guess all I am saying is think longer term.
>
> Ian (1MB pront  and loves it)
>
> p.s. one advantage of the docking station is you can have the
backlight and
> LCD on for longer which is nice. Only a small point but.....

If you have some kind of controller, ie a PC or Homevision, you can use
sequences of X10 commands t  fire off X10 events, therefore you don't need
the all houscode version.

Kind of works like a menu system, have a look at
http://www.smgsystems.co.uk/ha/
under what's new, that has more detail about
how I do it with a Pront  & single housecode IR7243

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Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>
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