Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!humu!uhccux!richard From: richard@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Richard Foulk) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: X-10 material in Circuit Cellar Ink Message-ID: <2023@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 6 Jul 88 14:37:46 GMT References: <44803@felix.UUCP> <35672@linus.UUCP> Reply-To: richard@uhccux.UUCP (Richard Foulk) Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 13 } So how DO we set these systems up so that people with no computer or } electronics orientation can use them? The HomeMinder interface } certainly isn't it; that's probably why GE gave them to RS. One solution would be to provide traditional switches too, (interfaced to the X-10 stuff) so that normal people wouldn't have to figure things out just to turn a light on or off. I think some slightly more elaborate modules are in order. Some with a switch on a cord, to place in a convenient place, and perhaps some with some sort of capacitance pickup or something. It probably wouldn't be too difficult to modify existing modules to do this. Richard