Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!attctc!jolnet!swan From: swan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Joel Swan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: No more gurus! Message-ID: <2362@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> Date: 11 Dec 89 08:01:29 GMT References: <1540@geocub.greco-prog.fr> <2352@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> Reply-To: swan@jolnet.UUCP (Joel Swan) Organization: Media Specialties Ltd. Lines: 45 In article kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen) writes: :In article <2352@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> swan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Joel Swan) :writes: : In article <1540@geocub.greco-prog.fr> anthes@geocub.greco-prog.fr : (Franklin Anthes) writes: : : : : I'm thinking of seting up amigas in remote locations, up to : :several hundred miles away. [wants to reboot on gurus] : : The only sure fire mehtod I can think of is by powering down and up the : Amiga's power from a remote location. I imagine the telephone controller : for the X-10 power system would be the best bet. : :This isn't all that bad an idea, except I'd like to point out that the :BSR X-10 system is also VERY flaky. Our system at home reacts quite a You may want to make it more clear that "YOUR" system is flakey (perhaps as you said; someone else near by has a controller on the same house setting). The reason is because I've worked closely with two systems for over a year now. Everything from dimmers, to appliance modules, to radio controlled remote modules (no experience with the telephone hookup though) and have NEVER had a spurious ON or OFF. In no uncertain terms, the X-10 system as a whole is NOT flakey. It is quite stable. The flakiness may be in another controller or dirty AC. There actually be many manufacturers of X-10 modules, I wonder what brand you've had reliability problems with. I would imagine the modules from DAK are cheaper than those from Radio Shack or Sears? I'm not sure if they are made by one company (under contracts) or not. :bit to spurious commands (noise? someone else has a controller on the :same house setting?), and the switches often croak after a period :ranging from days to months. Not too reliable, esp. if you want to :avoid having to go to those remote locations. :-- :T. Kim Nguyen kim@watsup.waterloo.{edu|cdn} : kim@watsup.uwaterloo.ca : {uunet|utzoo|utai|decvax}watmath!watsup!kim :Systems Design Engineering -- University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Like I said, no problems of any kind in two product-years of testing in my experience. Joel