RE: Re: X10 Curtain Controller for Autoglide/Swish!

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxx>]

>
> I thought that all it did though was to check back from the last time
> logged for any Homeseer events that should have run in that period
> and then run them.  I've used this successfully in the past but the
> problem I was trying to solve was caused by the power coming back on -
>  an event Homeseer knows nothing about.  I think David's shutdown
> flag should do the trick though.
>

[Paul Gordon]
Hmm. I suspected it was probably a pretty dumb power fail recovery. Oh
well....


> Maybe I need to re-think this.  I'd been looking at something to keep
> running all the kit in node zero - and thinking about how to keep it
> powered for some time. I guess realistically though it is only the
> Homeseer PC, the CM12U and perhaps the router that needs to be on the
> UPS. And even then it only needs to be on long enough for a
> controlled shutdown. Is that the correct rationale? Rather than to
> keep them running for long periods??
>

[Paul Gordon]
Absolutely... I keep only the essential items on the UPS, and I use the
UPS software to shutdown the servers as soon as a powerfail is
detected...


>
> > I've now got a smarter motor solution though, so I probably won't
be
> > needing those Swish motors (so they may well be on offer here in
a
> > couple of weeks!) so I may never get round to trying this method
of
> > detection...
>
> So what motors are you now using?
>


[Paul Gordon]
Err... these:
http://www.laser.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=287&category_id=b519d
2e410e2af559dcc80c24de1ab7e&