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RE: [ECS] HomeVision with ECSW Mark Sekelsky Sun, 21 Jun 1998 15:01:16 -0500

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While Michael's suggestion would work (thanks for the thought Michael) it is
a little more complex than that.  I have 33 appliance items and although
most are OFF and not affected there are more being affected than just the
"Somebody's home" I have used in my example.  Initially I did not understand
that it should work in this fashion, but if this is how it works, this is
how it works.  To your earlier point, Mark, once I get the "kinks" out I
shouldn't be shutting down/restarting all that much.

Mark S

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Gilmore [mailto:markgilmore@cococo.net]
Sent: Sunday, June 21, 1998 2:14 PM
To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org
Subject: Re: [ECS] HomeVision with ECSW


I just went thru a fair amount of trouble to verify what I already
knew: Regardless of the ifc used, ECS always sends out an OFF
command at startup for backed up LIGHT states.
For APPLIANCE items, it only sends ON or OFF.
I can find nothing out of the ordinary here.

There may be a diff in the way ECS queues PLC commands
for the diff devices, which could explain what you are
seeing on startup. Michael's suggestion is a good one.
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Mark Gilmore
Omnipotence
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mark_gilmore_2

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