RE: X10/Room Occupancy/SWMBO acceptance

[steve.cooper@xxxxxxx]

>>There are two reasons why I will not be automating my curtains:
>>1/ I do not want to end up with a system where manually operating
the
>>curtains results in total confusion and the system unable to handle
it
until
>>someone in the know fixes it.

It easy for the system to get it right if you provide the feedback it
needs.  Put a small magnet on the curtain and a reed switch on the
rail,
when the reed switch closes they are shut.  Some curtain motors work
on a
pulse to change direction so if the curtain are open or half way across
pulse the motor.  If that closes the curtains fine if not it's opening
them
so wait a few seconds and pulse again.  Alternatively get a set of
curtain
with a dawn to dusk sensor and throw the sensor in the bin and link it
up
to an output or put an LED right next to the sensor and wrap it all up
in
black tape.  Of course you need something that can control the inputs
and
output and we all know where we are going here!

>>2/ The systems I ahve seen take far longer to close curtains than I
can
do
>>manually and if I'm going to go to the curtains and press the
button on
the
>>closer, hell I may as well pull the chord and do it myself.

What about when you not at home, part of the point of automated curtains
is
not for while your there but for when your not.

S.



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