RE: Power triggering

["Broadfoot, Kieran J" <Kieran.Broadfoot@xxxxxxx>]

I guess this is where I am lucky.  I have a power-off panel that has
buttons
for all devices hence when she has finished watching say a dvd she flicks
to
this panel, switches everything off then back to the wizard.  not perfect
by
any stretch but fairly straightforward.

Lets face it unless you use discrete codes, state monitoring software on
your lighting system and possibly some kind of fuzzy AI on your controller
you will not achieve most of what we all aspire to.

This goes back to the infamous conversation I had with MarkH about this
exact same subject.  The conclusion was that the problem is not with the
individual components but that the integration of these tools is the
problem.  Im tending to agree these days that a solution from a single
supplier is almost always going to achieve better results due to
integration
problems.  Gaffa (sp?) tape doesnt appear to work, i know ive tried often
enough ;-)

thanks
kieran

-----Original Message-----
From: BUTLER, Tony, FM [mailto:tony.butler@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 3:18 PM
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Power triggering


I have the amp volume on all panels - except the Tv panel because SWMBO
tends to use TV sound only so I ahve to turn that off etc when I want
to watch TV.
The problems with Pronto are largely caused by SWMBO doing things like the
above,
and not having discrete codes for power on/off.  Basically SWMBO leaves the
system
in an indeterminate state, so a one button solution ends up turning TV off,
amp on,
SKY off etc... This is then a pain to reset everything to a known state :(

Tony