RE: Re: AWM2...options

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Robert,

You said this was for a Garage door, and the sockets were ceiling mounted,
right?

Could you not then just wire in a mains light socket on the switched side
of 
the module, so that the light switches *with* the door openers?


.. Or did I misunderstand completely, - do you want the status indicator
situated remotely from the garage door... like in the house or something...
- if so, then just ignore me, I've not been feeling well lately... :-)

Paul G.







>From: "Robert Welsh" <bob-ukha@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: AWM2...options
>Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:46:45 -0000
>
> > 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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