RE: Re: AWM2...options

["Robert Welsh" <bob-ukha@xxxxxxx>]

> If you want remote visual feedback, rather than an indicator light
> local to the socket, how about connecting an LED to your Homeseer 
> PC's parallel (or serial) port? You should be able to drive an LED
> over a few tens of feet fine, and toggling the output port from 
> Homeseer should be a doodle.

Yet another reason to get off my backside and buy that USBIO-24 board
that I've been thinking about for months...
Yeah - thanks, Patrick - that had crossed my mind but it was the
running
the "tens of feet" of wire from Homeseer box to 'controller
location'
that I was trying to avoid....

However, the more I think about it, the more it becomes the only
reasonable thing to do. To have a status indicator driven by anything
other than a hardwired connection doesn't make ANY sense whatsoever.
The
reason I want status indication is because I want to be sure that the
socket is indeed off when I said "go off". The reason I need this
is
because, as we know, X10 isn't reliable. So if I use X10 to drive a
status indicator (based on a status event) then my whole philosophy
falls flat... (i.e. what if the X10 message to switch the status
indicator fails to arrive !!)

Bah !! 

Robert

PS - I actually don't suffer very often from X10 unreliability...so I'm
probably just being electronic-neurotic here.



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