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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
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Reply-To: richard@uhccux.UUCP (Richard Foulk)
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} 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