RE: Ceiling Lights question

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

Nope.  That's the conclusion I've come to.
Any 'useful' X10 stuff requires push-to-make contacts, not 'proper'
switches.
I'm not ditching my brushed steel switches downstairs just for dimming
options!
Might do upstairs though.....

Another option might me futronix or similar IR controllers.  Okay, you have
to change the switch, but they look good too.  Nicking MR Doxey's idea, you
bung an IR emitter behind the switch face and run a cable back to some sort
of IR sender which is linked into your X10 system.
Of course, you get no feedback over the system to know the light levels
have
changed, but it seems loads of the X10 things don't give feedback anywap :(

Plan b) could be to cannibalise a lamp module?  Stick the guts of it in the
wall behind the switch.  The switch must stay on for X10 control, but you
do
have local control if need be by retaining the switch & use a keyfob/IR
xverted jobbie to dim the lamp module.

Hows that?

(Guys, am I getting the hand of sticky plaster solutions yet?)

Tony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pedro de Oliveira [mailto:p.oliveira@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 14 February 2002 12:16
> To: HA (ukha_d@xxxxxxx)
> Subject: [ukha_d] Ceiling Lights question
>
>
> Hi all
>
> I am trying to automate my ceilings lights.  I found some
> "socket rockets"
> on letsautomate with bayonet fittings and these sounded ideal
> until I read
> they only have ON/OFF (no dim).
> Is there any other way of X10'ing my ceiling lights
> preferably with a DIM
> option without changing the switches?
>
> Cheers
> Pedro
>
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