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FW: [ECS] HomeVision IR Question Ingo Dean (At Home) Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:11:10 -0400

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[Second try]

Before ECS, with just my Homevision, my lights dimmed smoothly, but with ECS
there's an obvious stair-stepping effect.  I'd like to improve this.

I see three options:

1.)  If I want to dim a light 5 steps, it looks like ECS is sending 5
individual DIM commands (,Pxx05) to Homevision, instead of just telling
Homevision to send 5 DIMs all at once (,Pxx0705).  Improving this would
require a change in ECS.

2.)  Maybe X10 commands are buffered like IR commands, and I can just turn
that off to make it smoother?  Is there an X10 equivalent for "SET
ECS_IR_TX_Q=0"?  Are these environment variables documented anywhere?  I've
looked...

3.)  I could send the Homevision "multidim" commands myself, using
Command-J.  But then how do I tell ECS that a certain light is now
"magically" at another level?

A fourth option is for me to throw out all my regular X-10 modules and get
PCS modules.  Believe me, I'd like that.  Too bad my wife would kill me when
she saw the credit card statement.  :-)

Thanks,

--ingo


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael David [mailto:michael@michaeldavid.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 1998 10:03 PM
> To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org
> Subject: RE: [ECS] HomeVision IR Question
>
>
> Hi Don!
>
> I had the same problem because I use relays to set the zone(s) that the IR
> signal is sent to.  So, Mark added an environment variable to not
> buffer the
> IR signals.  Try This:
>
> SET ECS_IR_TX_Q=0
>
> It will disable all IR buffering.
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> Michael David
> michael@michaeldavid.com

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