The SWMBO is RIGHT! RE: Power triggering

["Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

Guys I have had growing un-ease here...

Can I just stress that this is my own personal view.

If you have a SWMBO who doesn't "get it" you have a perfect
opportunity..

It's a simple enough principle. if the SWMBO doesn't see *instantly* that
the HA setup offers something worthwhile,
then it probably *isn't* worthwhile.

Time and again, occupancy detection seems to be "it" the
insurmountable
problem. I think, though, that control is more of an issue than most people
realise.

We started out looking for a proto, but I am now thinking much more
seriously about ditching the whole "intelligent remote" idea as
an
incredibly bad idea for most things.

having implemented an IR transceiver, and girder, I am now looking at using
One for All "zapper-1" single device remotes as the main home
controller,
using smarts at th *other* end to do the business..

I am also thinking of ripping the guts out of an HR10, and fixing it up
behind some nice M-K switches, to make the X-10 control interface as close
to normal operation as possible..

I think our house is about as "simple" as can be, but visitors
still have
problems. Tony's joke about handing visitors a leaflet showing how to work
the doorbell is funny, but just think.. how many pages of instructions
would
you have to give to a housesitter if you went on a long break, of a month
or
so? How many support calls would you get for your house?

I think we need to consider these issues.

Ian.