Re: Does a home power meter-base exist which uses BlueTooth?

[Scott Knight <scottknight66@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 1/22/2006 11:12 PM Jack Edin carved the following into a picnic table:
> It is because X10 stuff is unreliable.
>
> When you tell an X10 device to turn on, or off... did it? How can you
> know for sure...??
>
> It is open-loop, no feedback, hope it worked...
>
> This is to help close the loop...

Or, you could just convert your system over to a newer technology, like
Insteon.  Not quite closed loop, but _much_ more reliable with ACK/NACK
responses (with retries on NACK) and message repeating by all devices.

BTW, I think this monitoring thing is a pretty neat idea from the
standpoint of being a data junkie.  Just seems an overly complex
solution to your problem when better ones already exist.
--
Scott Knight