Re: Help with 7 Circuit Project?

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

"Brett Griffin" <brett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>The Omni LT is limited to 16 messages, which is the downfall, but if you got
>creative you could use combinations of messages to have more functionality.

Unfortunately, combined messages would just be gibberish to the CPU-XA. It
can only recognize those already defined by its protocol. It can transmit
arbitrary ASCII messages.

>The downfall of the Omni LT is it is too limited when you are really excited
>about automating many things...
>
>The Omni Lt only has one "If" statement but you can combine lines with flags
>to have more than one condition.  Than again you only have 100 lines of
>programming.  But HAL 2000 would expand this, but for the cost of HAl and
>another $100 bucks you have an Omni Pro II.

The CPU-XA has far more functionality so it makes more sense to let it do
the logic and decision making. It would be possible to send X-10 commands
via the powerline that could be used to trigger other CPU-XA actions but
this does increase powerline traffic.