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RE: The SWMBO is RIGHT! RE: Power triggering
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- Subject: RE: The SWMBO is RIGHT! RE: Power triggering
- From: "Nikola Kasic" <nikola@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:47:57 -0000
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I
agree with Ian.
Even
in the most secure and reliable places there is a way to switch to manual
mode
(otherwise we would be nuked already).
There
is no such thing like perfect automation, especially when we are playing
with
the low-cost devices.
I
don't see why it shouldn't be possible to preserve manual functions for all
automated things, so when we have homesitters, we leave them in "manual"
mode,
as they are used to and everyone is happy.
I'm
even thinking (to go into extreme) to put one main switch that would switch
my
house from "auto" to "manual" mode and vice versa, so there's always escape
available :-).
Nik
>
-----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lowe
[mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 13 February 2002 15:53
>
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx> Subject: RE: The SWMBO is RIGHT! RE:
[ukha_d] Power triggering
>
> >Surely though Ian, you won't
need a house sitter, because your fully
[...]
> those ten
days show my point...
Ian,
Forgive me for laughing at the
misadventures you described, but they are
funny to an outsider, and do
perfectly illustrate what happens 'when
Automation goes Mad IV - coming
soon to Sky 1' :-) This is the sort I think
I want to avoid, even
on
the small scale of SWMBO preferring original
remotes to my pronto, her
preference for 'real' on/off switches instead of
keyfobs
etc....
The
key I think here is reliability being ALL important.
Sitters aside, if
it
ain't reliable, SWMBO won't wanna know.....
> My experience of
non-UKHA members in an X-10 house is pretty
> much that:
they
>
feel totally out of control, as "it" does things around them,
> like
it
or
> not.
This is why I want to continue having 'normal'
switches
etc.
EG some luddite walks into a darkened room and reaches for the
wall
switch.... there isn't one there - it's PIR controlled.....but the
PIR
malfunctions/the HA controller has crashed etc
etc.....
Tony
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