RE: Re: RS232 or RF X10?

["Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

Ahhhhh, but you use an IR- distro system like the one Ian Bird has built to bring the IR to the Girder PC, not use monster serial cables! :)

 

this works fine for us..

 

in our case,

 

IR -> IR-Bus -> UIRT -> Girder -> [IR or X-10] -> Homeseer(X10) -> CM11 -> Device 

                                                                  -> UIRT (IR) -> Device

 

Ian.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stainton-James, Mark (London) [mailto:stainmar@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 14 February 2002 10:38
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: RS232 or RF X10?

I am not sure how practical that would be for most people, especially with the limitations on the length of serial cables. There is also an additional step, in that it is actually going:

 

IR è X10 è CM11A è Homeseer è CM11A è X10 è Device

 

Why not for scence setting cut out the Homeseer piece altogether and store your specific scene setting macros directly into the CM11A. Homeseer will still be able to keep track of the device status's but everything should happen a little quicker.

 

What would be really nice is a CM11A and a IR7243 combined.

 

Mark

 

-----Original Message-----
From: kinchyuk [mailto:kinchyuk@xxxxxxx class=GramE>]
Sent: 14 February 2002 10:27
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: [ukha_d] Re: RS232 or RF X10?

 

--- In ukha_d@y..., "Robert Welsh" <bob@e...> wrote:

> I've got a single button press on a Pronto, going via an IR7243 to
> Homeseer - which then issues a series of X10 commands to set each
of the
> lights in the room accordingly.

I've got Homeseer, and although I haven't actually tried this out, I
can't see why it won't work.

At the moment you're going:

IR -> X10 -> Homeseer -> X10 -> Devices

You've got two sets of X10 delays in there. So how about putting an
IR receiver onto a serial port on the Homeseer machine, which would
give:

IR -> Homeseer -> X10 -> Devices

Should cut down your delay!

Alex


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