Re: x10, CBUS, and a VIOM - your views?

["Frank Mc Alinden" <frankmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Yep - there's no perfect solution

"Homevision "  ;-))

Frank


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gareth Cook" <g@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 5:49 AM
Subject: Fw: [ukha_d] x10, CBUS, and a VIOM - your views?


> Yep - there's no perfect solution - just whatever you are comfortable
> with.
>
> G.
>
> Gareth Cook
> Tools and Process Architect
> IBM SWG Sales - Lotus Park, Staines, TW18 3AG
> Office: +44 (0)1784 445166 - Mobile: +44 (0)7980 445166
> AIM Chat : TheBoyG - MSN Chat : chat@xxxxxxx
> email: g@xxxxxxx
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> ----- Forwarded by Gareth Cook/UK/IBM on 08/10/2005 20:48 -----
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> One other thing to factor into the equation is what happens when a
piece
> of
> "embedded hardware" ie. non-PC, actually does go wrong. 
While less likely
> than a PC because usually less heat, fewer moving bits etc it does
happen.
> Lightning is often a culprit.  It is more difficult to fix and if the
> company who supplied it is no-longer in business, impossible to
replace.
>
> Shane
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
>> Gareth Cook
>> Sent: Sunday, 9 October 2005 6:28 a.m.
>> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>> Subject: Fw: [ukha_d] x10, CBUS, and a VIOM - your views?
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>> Yes, I have servers (ie NAS) that stay up 24/7 - but I know it
will fail
>> eventually :-) . The PC has a level of complexity that means that
>> something WILL go wrong at some point.
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>> I'm happy that I only have Homeseer for logging Comfort and CBUS
events
> -
>> ALL the logic is now done in Comfort for everything. I can happily
> switch
>> off the power and things just work. Could I say that about a lardy
PC ?
>> Will it boot ? Will the HD have a hissy fit after being shut off ?
Will
>> Windows barf with an auto update of somekind ? Will it get an IP
address
>> ok ? Lots of things. Even power consumption.
>>
>> If I'm away and there's a problem, can I fix it remotely ? Could
the
> wife
>> ? Prob not.
>>
>> PC's are so much more flexible - but that's at a cost. So for me,
>> I prefer
>> solid state wherever possible for house automation.
>>
>> G.
>>
>>  Gareth Cook
>>  Tools and Process Architect
>>  IBM SWG Sales - Lotus Park, Staines, TW18 3AG
>>  Office: +44 (0)1784 445166 - Mobile: +44 (0)7980 445166
>>  AIM Chat : TheBoyG - MSN Chat : chat@xxxxxxx
>>  email: g@xxxxxxx
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>> ----- Forwarded by Gareth Cook/UK/IBM on 08/10/2005 18:21 -----
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>> On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 16:29 +0100, Gareth Cook wrote:
>> > I dont want any PC shinnanigans controlling anything.
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>> Out of interest, why not?
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>> It's interesting getting the sales feedback from the call centre
these
>> days. About half of our customers don't want to leave a PC running
24/7,
>> and the other half have no problem whatsoever, and don't
understand why
>> the other half do :-)
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>> I leave the servers running 24/365, and can't remember the last
time any
>> of them crashed [1]. The desktop / laptops are a different
proposition
>> mind - less stable - but I do tend to muck around with the configs
on
>> those an awful lot, and accept loss of stability as the trade off
for
>> "testbed."
>>
>> [1] I run 3 servers -
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>> 1: the "live" server - Windows: music server (Rios),
fileserver (all
>> kinds of stuff), HA (Harmony)
>>
>> 2: the backup / Asterisk server - backs up the data volumes of the
live
>> server once an hour over SMB. Also runs the * system (4
extensions, 1
>> analogue trunk, 1 external SIP "trunk".)
>>
>> 3: a client server, that runs their file sharing over OpenVPN.
They have
>> 3 field-based staff. In principle this is moving to their MD's
house as
>> soon as he gets a round tuit :-) Thanks to Patrick Lidstone of
this
>> group for introducing me to OpenVPN which works terribly, terribly
well
>> in this setup.
>>
>> Regards,
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>> Mark
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