RE: X10 addressing

["BUTLER, Tony, FM" <tony.butler@xxxxxxx>]

> One thing to bear in mind Tony:
> mini-timers and such can only address, say 1-8 devices on a single
> housecode,
> so if (before you go Homevision/CM11+Homeseer) you want to have things
> happen automagically
> (like lights coming on at the same time each night for instance) it's worth
> "saving" the lower numbers for those devices.

Thanks.  Not an issue at the moment as I wouldn't know what to do with a minitimer if I had one, but worth bearing in mind!

Why do they make these modules with sill limitations like that? :(

 

> also, renumbering is no big deal.. we are talking a couple of dozen modules
> at most, yeah?

Who know's how many modules I'll end up with? :-)

 

> What I have settled on is..

Thanks for your suggestions.  I think I'll go with the Keith/Mark idea though of using one letter per room.  I don't have enough rooms that I'll need to split letters across rooms (well, not yet anyway :-))

cheers,

 

 

Tony

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