RE: Re: Activehome and GMT

[Keith Doxey <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

Just a long shot as I dont use Activehome anymore.....

is there an option for "Daylight Saving" or
"Summertime" in the software.
That could possibly account for the 1 hour discrepancy.

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: pollocmc@xxxxxxx [mailto:pollocmc@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 27 June 2001 09:46
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Activehome and GMT


It does give LonLat as well, presumably for locations not listed. I
assumed that the numbers were accurate for glasgow but I'll check that
out. I had thought of moving to homeseer but I think I read somewhere
that you need a separate component for downloading the fast macros.
Is that correct? I'm still trying to convince my nearest and dearest
that we should have this stuff at all never mind tell her that I'll
have to leave my PC on all the time!

Mark


--- In ukha_d@y..., Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@s...> wrote:
> I think it has something to do with how Activehome calculates Dusk
times.
>
> There is a formula that given the Longitude & Latitude & date
will
calculate
> the dusk time, it could be that because you have chosen GMT as your
timezone
> it's calculating the dusk time from the lonlat of London? Though
because it
> lets you set your location you would have thought it would know the
co-ords.
>
> Having said that I don't know how much difference there is between
dusk in
> Glasgow & Dusk in London (though it is significant).
>
> I've never used Activehome, but is there any way you can give it
your LonLat
> co-ords?
>
> On Tuesday 26 June 2001 23:19 pm, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Bit of a newbie question but here goes.
> >
> > I've got ActiveHome (v1.41) installed and have been trying to get
it
> > to put the lights on at around dusk ("yawn" says all
you diehards
but
> > you can blame homebase for these types of questions) I've set the
> > timezone to GMT and the location to Glasgow(where I live!) and
> > clicked DST but the lights seem to come on an hour earlier than
reqd.
> > Consequently I've had to put a 1hr delay on to make the ligths
come
> > on around dusk and set them to go off at 00:45 to make them go
off
at
> > 23:45.
> >
> > Sorry for the trouble. It's not really causing me any great
problem
> > just annoying
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mark Pollock
> >
> >
> >
> >
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