RE: Re: X-10 screen control switch (SW10G)

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

> Might be useful - although I expect I can work it out.

Sent to your private address...

> Seems to me X-10 missed a trick here - with only a minor modification
> to the firmware we could have had X-10 two-way switches too.

Business as usual then?

There's lots of things that in hindsight could have been done
differently but on the whole it's not bad ... The X10 UK wall switches
were designed to accommodate the fact that we generally don't run
neutrals to our light switches but there are lots of ways that they
could have been made better. (Just as with any product short of Dualit
toasters which are perfect *grin*)

The LW11G wall switches are superb if you can accommodate them as they
support LD11 functionality in that they have the external switching
inputs too. (Two way switching is suddenly a piece of p*ss!)

What we're really missing in the way of X10 functionality in the UK is
switches and modules that broadcast that they have changed state due to
being manually operated and modules that can be interrogated ...
Hopefully as the market grows (and it is doing slowly) people like Li
and Mike H will continue to exert pressure on X10 Europe (and I know
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functionality into their UK product line. All the technology is there
it's just convincing X10 Europe to bolt it into the UK kit.

What we have to realise though is that we're also responsible for the
future of X10 over here ... Our frantic scrabble to Homebase last year
for the cheap X10 kits possibly sent the wrong messages back to X10.
They see the price drop and sudden scramble as indicating that the
driving force is price ... If it's cheap it'll sell. Whereas Homebase
wasn't really the place to be selling those X10 kits in the first place.
What encouragement to add functionality and complexity (and hence impose
the inevitable price rise on the modules) do X10 Europe take from that?

Phil