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RE: Rhetorical CBUS question... One for Phil H maybe?



Yeah - I get to play with other interesting kit nowadays. :-D

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Paul Gordon
> Sent: 01 April 2008 21:04
> To: UKHA Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Rhetorical CBUS question... One for Phil H
maybe?
>
> Crikey, has it been that long... - I knew you'd left, but that year
> rather flew by...
>
> ... "Vooom...."
> ... "what was that?"....
> ... "That was your life mate"...
> ... "Oh, do I get another?"...
> ... "Sorry mate"....
>
> I just wondered if you might have some inside knowledge from your time
> there, - maybe even know who was responsible... - it's a long shot, I
> know. :-)
>
> Paul G.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Phil Harris
> Sent: 01 April 2008 20:58
> To: UKHA Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Rhetorical CBUS question... One for Phil H
maybe?
>
> I don't work for 'em any longer matey - been left nearly a year! :-D
>
> Phil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> > Of Paul Gordon
> > Sent: 01 April 2008 20:25
> > To: UKHA Group
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Rhetorical CBUS question... One for Phil H
maybe?
> >
> > This is the second time I've thought this, and now SWMBO has
exactly
> > echoed my thoughts, but having just spent a fair while racking
our
> > brains trying to find a suitable combination I have to ask...
> >
> >
> >
> > Who the *hell* chose the 66 words & icons that are in the
CBUS Saturn
> > pre-labelled button cap set!?!?!?! - and is he/she *clinically
> insane*
> > !!!
> >
> >
> >
> > I mean, come on! :-
> >
> >
> >
> > Rumpus  - I don't even know what one of those IS (in an
automation
> > context)
> >
> > BBQ - Does anyone *really* have a CBUS controlled Barbie?!?!?
> >
> > WIR - that is just plain nonsense!! - what the chuff is a
"WIR"
> >
> >
> >
> > Yet at the same time, options that any sane person might imagine
> would
> > be more useful are nowhere to be found... How about a full set of
> > transport icons instead of two "play" triangle icons
(and nothing
> > else!)
> > no "Bathroom", "ventilator",
"Extractor" "Heating" (Central or
> > otherwise!).  - OK, yes I grant you there IS one icon that
vaguely
> > looks
> > like the sun or something, which just about suffices... Also,
what
> > there
> > is that is genuinely useful in virtually every set is only ever
> > included
> > once, - so I have to buy a complete set just to get one or two
caps
> > that
> > I find I want to use on virtually every switchplate. - It's like
> > getting
> > your Scrabble letters & finding you've only been supplied
with
> > "Z's"....
> >
> >
> >
> > Phil, - have a word mate!
> >
> >
> >
> > :-)
> >
> >
> >
> > Paul G.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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