Re: I'm loving Insteon

[RickH <passport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 2, 12:41 pm, nob...@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston) wrote:
> RickH <passp...@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.

I think they are not waiting for completion and not queuing at all, if
I go only slightly slower than the time it takes my finger to get to
the next button then it works ok, but I did notice that the light is
already coming on for the first button within that time.  If I go too
fast from button to button the subsequent keypress is ignored (but the
local button flashes to indicate that it ignored your keypress) all
you have to do is press it again and it responds.  Anyway these
response times are still instantaneous compared to x10, and most of
the time you are hitting only one button on the keypad.

Ultimately I want to assign buttons to scenes so only one keypress is
necessary, I'll wait to see how our lifestyle uses the lights to
determine the most useful scenes.  Scenes are really something only
the homeowner can do effectively, because an installer can never
assume to know how you live in your home, or what is a useful scene.