Re: X-10 Mister House Motion sensor problems

[Marc F Hult <MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 14:33:21 -0400, "Robert Green"
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>"Marc F Hult" <MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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  The X-10 stuff is quick enough if you position the
>sensor and transceiver close to each other and close to the load.

In my experience, X-10 is almost never quick enough if the system needs to
dim instead of toggle ON-OFF. And if you get up at 3AM , who wants the
lights to go on suddenly at 100% bright?

Or worse, the infamous X-10 Flash! followed by the slow excruciating,
erratic dim that may or may not follow. Bleach out the eye's rhodopsin
with the first Flash! and then dim so that you couldn't see even if you
*did* have a flashlight ...  (Yet another of x-10's many gotchas that has
tedious work-arounds.)

Methinks you want this to work so badly that you don't see how badly it
usually works ...

 ... Marc
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