RE: Re: Wiring light switches...

["Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>]

Paul,

I think your problem with response times could be down to the way you
are getting HV to send the on command. I have PIRs connected directly
to
HV, no Comfort in the way or a PC, you walk into the room and the
lights
come on in well under a second, in fact it's almost instantaneous, Phil
has seen this in action too, he can confirm this if he reads it.

In many rooms, such as my AV room or the bathroom, all I need to do is
wave at the PIR and the lights come on. I have said before, I rarely
touch a light switch in the house, or an X10/momentary switch,
virtually
everything is either off a PIR or done by IR in some cases.

Having said that, I have noticed a huge difference between different
PIRs and, additionally if HV is stuffed full of conditions to check
then
the response time drops. Also if you read the command to Comfort, then
to ACE and then to HV then, inevitably, there will be a huge delay in
that and one I would not find acceptable never mind SWMBO! ;)

Not having Comfort (yet) I've never tried routing PIRs through another
machine and, even if/when I install Comfort I would not choose to go
down that route simply due to the problems you describe.

K.

Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

ADVERTISEMENT

For more information: http://www.automatedhome.co.uk
Post message: ukha_d@xxxxxxx 
Subscribe:  ukha_d-subscribe@xxxxxxx 
Unsubscribe:  ukha_d-unsubscribe@xxxxxxx 
List owner:  ukha_d-owner@xxxxxxx

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.