> Has anyone
done
this and thought after "I wish I had done this........."
YES (before
James
Hoye says it). I have 7 CAT5s into the kitchen but I didn't leave myself
one
high up in a cupboard (along with mains) where I would now like to put
a
DDAR MP3 player.
> Also has
anyone
had any experience of underfloor heating and controlling it using
X10?
> I notice
Mark
McCall has.............
We've just
started
to use it again as it's been so mild up until now. This is the first
chance we've had to use Keith's interface. I don't use X10 here, but
HomeVisions IO ports. You could of course trigger the heating with
X10
though, or thru internal or external phone using Comfort, or IR/X10 with
Pronto
etc etc...
I will be
writing up
the heating thing soon but in the meantime here's a pic of the switched
Keith
made me. He has embedded LEDs in the tips of these Clipsal push
switches
(although mains rated they are on low voltage circuit over CAT5 to
HV).
One button for upstairs and one for downstairs. Upstairs comes on for
an
hour while downstairs does two hours (underfloor is slow to respond).
This
is great as now you can see at a glance what heating is on where (before I
had
to go out to the garage if I wanted a boost - now I have these buttons in
Kitchen and master bedroom). It's also more economical as the heating
doesn't get left on anymore. Programming your heating using HV is
great
too. And you can do stuff like turn off heating when alarm is armed
very
easily.
M.
