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🖥️ActiveHome Pro => ActiveHome Pro General => Topic started by: Azeotrope on May 03, 2005, 09:09:55 PM
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I appreciate everyone's response,
(apparently my earlier response went into
the bit bucket)
To Joe S. Thanks loads. I will definitely
check it out and respond back to this
thread.
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>>>Looks like I'm going to have to respond
via the installment plan>>
To Mike C.--Unfortunately, the Rain8II
module has no automatic mode. A fact of
which I became acutely aware after I
purchased it. However, to WGL Designs'
credit, they offered an exchange and refund
of the difference even though I did not
purchase it from them. The Rain8II does,
however, have a definable maximum time each
zone can stay on.
The reason I got the 2 way module was
precisely because what you had mentioned,
namely, the inherent unreliability of the
x10 technology in general, not just x10's
products particularly. With this
technology, I could, at least
theoretically, achieve some sort of "fail
safe" operation.
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To Tony Olson--Exactly. Why have 2 way
modules if you can't poll them
programmatically and design macros around
their response?
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To x10 Pro--I understand that perhaps one
of the design goals of AHP was simplicity.
However, a suggestion for an improvement of
AHP would be to have the program handle the
hand shaking internally. For example, if
you have specified a two way module and
sent it a command under Smart Macros, the
macro would not execute the next line until
it polled the correct status from the
module. It would keep reissuing the
command (given some pre-defined
constraints) until such time as the
condition is satisfied.
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Sorry, I guess message size is limited...
To Roger H.--I don't mind taking a shot at
the SDK and I do have a battery backed up
computer that stays on 24/7 I can use.
However, rhetorically speaking, why would I
need the CM15a?
Thanks again for everyone's comments.
MG
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Mudguppie: The primary purpose of 2-way
modules is not for reliable communication,
it is to allow the module to report a local
change in status. This is most useful with
wall switches, but plug-in modules also can
be turned on locally. For this reason I
don’t understand why X10 only makes plug-in
2-way modules.
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Mudguppie - You're welcome. It didn't take
very long to assemble. Wow - funny way to
have to work with this forum. I'm really
just posting this note so I will see email
notices as you progress.