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Re: Kieran's comments was Last Night in London?
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- Subject: Re: Kieran's comments was Last Night in London?
- From: "Dr John Tankard" <john@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 06:24:59 -0000
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> I think that any HA system needs to include graceful degradation by
that I
> mean ....PC running you have top fuctionality including thought
control (
> only kidding but maybe voice control)plus lots of automation as in
Kierans
> concepts, PC dies you roll over to a local controller like a
TINI/Rabbit,
> still lots of integration possible but you lose the higher level
functions,
> the cupboard you put both the TINI and the PC in ends up under two
feet of
> water (hmm is it Paul that has some of his gear in a cellar? ;)
then you
> fall over to local control on direct switches or local pic driven
devices.
Thats ok with with me, provided we keep the system going when the pc
falls over. Also there will be people who will want to use the
devices we design, but dont want to have a pc full time to keep the
system going, there could be lots of reasons for this, cost, noise,
kids,system hacking,poor eleckey supply.....
I can see that the protocols will be critical in this development
John
John
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