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Thanks Karam, works a treat!

I needed two thresholds in the end one with the "trigger on true" set and one with the "trigger on false" set to flip between the two scene levels I was after.

Hi all,

Currently the lights in the hall operate based on presence to come on at a dim level (15%) to help me avoid falling over hurdles that the kids leave in place. This is great, but (as...

Yep! It turns out that a lot of the German switches come in momentary format - I guess it's due to a more developed HA world (maybe driven by KNX?). They are more expensive than I think they should...

I went for a centralised system using the DIN rail modules as we were putting in all the wiring. Our set up uses Jung (www.jung.de) switches (they are just straight momentary switches) connected to...

We've got a small-ish Idratek installation. As everyone has said the choice is absolutely horses for courses with a fair lump of personal bias thrown in (that's being human). Rather than get into...

I've been playing around with the idea of using xAP Flash on a Joggler to be a bedside interface for our Idratek installation.

I've got the Idratek integration working (thank you for great...

Thanks Viv, that'll be much better than my lash up!

Hi Chris,

As Karam suggested I divided one room into two zones by adding a room and an open door. To make things look nice I hid the "false room" so the plan looked like reality. The scheme...

Hi guys,

I've got a macro which turns the outside lights on when a car comes down the drive. The macro starts when one inductive loop is trigged and then waits for a second loop to trigger before...

I've done a bit of tinkering and it seems as if I don't need to have the inputs inverted as it works as well without. This also seems to have the effect of not making the direction dectector signal...

I have a couple of pressure pads on consecutive stair treads linked to a direction detector. The set up works well except when starting the network. On network start the dectector always registers...

Good spot Karam. I hadn't twigged that they were connected settings. It looks like it is working now - thank you.

I tried using the PCs built in webcam (I couldn't remember the test IP cam address) and turned on the time overlay and ASF recording. That exibits the same behaviour - for example a recording...

Thanks Karam,

I tried ASF and it looks to be the same (ie not pre rolled, but the same 4s of video twice)

Hi all,

I've just hooked up a SIP gate phone with a built in IP Camera and I'm experiencing what seems like a little oddness in with pre roll.

I've set up a motion detection zone and linked the...

I hadn't really thought about this. Does this apply to modern HF ballasts too?

It's a snowy afternoon, so after taking the kids out and acting as targert pratice for a while I've tried to connect my newly purchased currentCost with Idratek. I've written a noddy bit of VB to...

Thanks for the offer Viv.

Entirely user error! A message had poped up saying there wasn't a watchdog timer - I'd clicked "no don't create it". When I click "yes" (a good thing all round) the...

Happy with my progress at understand objects and connections I thought I'd have a go at a bit of reflexology!

I'm stumped by two things:
I can't see how to define the dimmer packets for on, off,...

Thanks Viv,

I've given this a whirl, but unfortunately when trying to dim up the lights turn off for the 0.5s-ish before the dim up happens (and vice versa).

I've fashioned a pair of macros...

Good point. Although in our case I think we'll be OK as the stairs only lead to the ensuite.

My test modules are all hooked up and I'm beginning to work things out... However, I'm seeing some behaviour which I wasn't expecting (and I prefer not to have!)

I have 3 buttons connected to 2...

Thanks Viv, very useful.

One of the tricky stairs is from the bedrrom up to the ensuite (the stairs are open to the bedroom). At night I'd like the stair tread lights to come on when someone is...

Apologies in advance, as I start to think more seriously about an install I'm no doubt going to have some daft questions... Rather than bothering Karam the whole time hopefully you good peole can...

Thanks Chris,

I was less after the control aspects of the 3ie more the aesthetics. I was hoping to take the innards out of a QBI and use the 3ie as the pretty bit! I imagine that somewhere under...