RE: X10 how popular is it in the UK, as I would like to design products for it?

["BUTLER, Tony, FM" <roaming@xxxxxxx>]

> I know that's not what you're saying here...but, if you had a 
> simple X10
> on/off device that connected to a normal UK switch then the next
thing
> would be, "why can't it dim, I want a dimmer one", then
status, then
> smaller...bla bla bla! You see where I'm going here I'm sure, the
same
> thing happens with software and, recently, with xAP and the 
> MP3 project and the thing just spirals out of control.

Well, I wanted to start off simple - the initial requirement is:
Normal switch control
Small
Cheap
Status Response

once they get those 'simple' requirements right, dimming is in V2 :-)

I know what you are saying Ken and indeed I have seen your X-Y-Z
argument
here before, but that was _not_ where I was leading.
Not intentionally anyway.



T.


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