Re: Lighting switch state communication

[Marc_F_Hult <MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:30:07 -0500, Marc_F_Hult
<MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
<uhu4t21i3suv69ku2l1ccu4is9sn3b9li3@xxxxxxx>:

>
>The " two-switch glitch " apparently occurs because one of the dimmers is a
>Slave (located at the top of the stairs) that sends a signal to the actual
>Master dimmer (at the bottom of the stairs). If these were two Master
>dimmers, it is likely that the failure of the dimmer to respond  would not
>occur, but that the inevitable collision might/would mean that one or both
>of the state changes would not get received by the INSTEON interface and
>therefore not be logged.  I'll check this out tomorrow and report back.


I was unable to get either two adjacent INSTEON ICON dimmers or two V2
dimmers (acting as MASTERs) to exhibit any 'glitches' despite repeated
attempts.

.... Marc
Marc_F_Hult
www.ECOntrol.org