RE: The SWMBO is RIGHT! RE: Power triggering

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 13 February 2002 15:53
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: The SWMBO is RIGHT! RE: [ukha_d] Power triggering
>
> >Surely though Ian, you won't need a house sitter, because your
fully

[...]

> those ten days show my point...

Ian,
Forgive me for laughing at the misadventures you described, but they are
funny to an outsider, and do perfectly illustrate what happens 'when
Automation goes Mad IV - coming soon to Sky 1' :-)  This is the sort I
think
I want to avoid, even on the small scale of SWMBO preferring original
remotes to my pronto, her preference for 'real' on/off switches instead of
keyfobs etc....

The key I think here is reliability being ALL important.
Sitters aside, if it ain't reliable, SWMBO won't wanna know.....

> My experience of non-UKHA members in an X-10 house is pretty
> much that: they
> feel totally out of control, as "it" does things around
them,
> like it or
> not.

This is why I want to continue having 'normal' switches etc.
EG some luddite walks into a darkened room and reaches for the wall
switch.... there isn't one there - it's PIR controlled.....but the PIR
malfunctions/the HA controller has crashed etc etc.....

Tony


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