RE: X10 Appliance Module with Feedback

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Good point......depending on how draconain you want to be,
> you could send OFF evey 2 seconds after X O'Clock ;)

That tends to flood your ability to send any other X10 commands though...

> and, I suppose, superglue the TV Plug into the Appliance
> module, and the module into the wall socket!

What I did was make sure that the appliance module and all the plugs were
hidden away in the back of a cupboard so that "the little
darling" couldn't
get to them.

He soon worked out that by hammering repeatedly on the TV power switch he
could get it to come on (local control) so I disabled that by cutting the
links internally on most of my appliance modules.

What I also did was if the "spare room" TV was turned on (from a
Pronto
downstairs) when he shouldn't be watching TV (either "outside of
hours" as
he used to get up in the middle of the night and sneak downstairs to turn
on
his telly or when he was "banned" from watching telly) then I had
it
programmed so that HomeVision would issue the "Force Off" command
but
delayed by 30 seconds which I worked out was just long enough for him to
get
back up to the spare bedroom, get sat on the bed and just be looking
through
the EPG on freeview to see what he wanted to watch. ;-)

Phil