Re: I'm loving Insteon

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

RickH <passport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>The only quirk is that if you walk
>up to say a multi keypad and very quickly hit several buttons in
>succession the keypad does not "queue up" those requests, it sends
>them all at once (apparently) and one of the commands may be skipped.
>But if you wait about a fourth of a second between each button press,
>all works fine.  Maybe future keypads will add a "queueing mechanism"
>to "single file" the commands that are pressed faster by the user than
>the system can take them.

It cannot send them "all at once" so it must queue them in some manner or
else you have to pace the presses to allow previous commands to complete.
Most likely there's a limited "queue" size which you exceed if you press too
many buttons in too short a period.