Re: 2012 and still no perfect UK HA light switch solution?

[David Claxton <dave.clax@xxxxxxxxx>]

Not that your remote would be miles away or anything but if I had the
option of getting out of bed to turn off a light that was already off or
seeing that the light was already off (thereby staying in bed) I know what
I would choose. 80)

Isn't the Insteon range supposed to be here very soon? Don't their products
have two-way functionality?

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On 14 Aug 2012, at 23:51, "Stuart Billinghurst"
<stuart@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> But why is a current state of every light needed in an install from a
> function point of view not aesthetic that's a different thing
entirely,
> because I toyed with this concept for long time as I started to design
of my
> own systems, and came to the conclusion that the only time I needed to
> really know the status was if I wanted to act upon it, so I only need
to
> know a light is on, if for instance I wish to turn it off, but if I
don't
> know it's status and then send an off, I know it's off even if it was
off
> before (I hope this makes sense) in which case two way is just an
aesthetic
> consideration, unless I have missed a functional need somewhere?
>
> Stuart.
>
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Mark J Cox
> Sent: 14 August 2012 19:35
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] 2012 and still no perfect UK HA light switch
solution?
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Stuart Billinghurst <
> stuart@xxxxxxx <mailto:stuart%40billinghursts.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Odd question, and humour me... but why do you need 2 way comms?
> >
>
> So you can tell what state each switch is in even if it has been
locally
> changed (i.e. you can have a display of the state of all the lights).
> LightwaveRF
> looked promising for a while (inexpensive, nice looking, even if not
zwave)
> but failed this.
>
> Mark
>
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