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Depending on how noisy your house's electrical system is, the commands and responses between controllers and devices can be lost. I control my sprinkler system
by cellucci 16y ago
Depending on how noisy your house's electrical system is, the commands and responses between controllers and devices can be lost. I control my sprinkler system with X10 from a Linux box and my first iteration flooded my back yard when I was on vacation a couple of years ago when a power-off command wasn't received.
- nodata 16y agoSo the problem is lack of feedback, you can't check if a command succeeded, only that it was sent? Can this be fixed at the application level with a status check?
- cellucci 16y agoFor feedback it depends on the device. Cheap light switches, for example, might just have on and off commands. Better versions will have a status command as well, and maybe a multi-level dim, etc. In my case the sprinkler switch did have status capability, but my cheesy little shell script was just assuming the commands succeeded.
- jawngee 16y agoAlso, X10 is noticeably slower than Z-Wave.