Re: Bigger x-10 maxi controller?

[Nick Hull <nhull@xxxxxxx>]

In article <26qdnV6eBKGmM-DYnZ2dnUVZ_oqmnZ2d@xxxxxxx>,
 "Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "Nick Hull" <nhull@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:nhull-
> >  "Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Yes - the Smarthome Control Linc Maxi number 4071 will control all 256
> codes
> > > from the panel with the cover off and offers ten programmable macro
> buttons
> > > with the cover closed.  You'll love it.  I do!  It has tremendous
> > > stand-alone capabilities and can turn off entire groups of housecodes.
> If
> > > you have lights on C, F, and G for example, you can program a single
> button
> > > to send an ALL OFF in sequence to each group of modules.
> > >
> > > http://www.smarthome.com/4071.html
> >
> > That looks like it has only 10 buttons, I want to control 20 lights
>
> Look more closely at the various photos.  There's a perforated, hinged cover
> that lets ten buttons you're seeing show through (and provides a different
> function for those buttons when the lid is closed than when open) but
> there's a whole lot more under the lid.
>
> When the lid is open, there is a bank of house code buttons, A through P on
> the left and a bank of unit code buttons, 1 through 16 on the right.  In the
> center are All Units and All users ON/OFF buttons.  Along the bottom of the
> unit, with the lid open, are programming buttons, ON and OFF and BRIGHT and
> DIM buttons.  It's what you're looking for, really!  I've never seen a
> controller with even half the power or features, especially for under $40.
> It takes just three presses to control any one of 256 X-10 devices:  House
> Code + Unit Code + Command.
>
> --
> Bobby G.
>
>

You are right, I missed operation under the cover.  Looks like a good
unit for my purposes.  Thanks.

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