Re: [mh] am I buying the right modules?

[Chuck <pip...@ya...>]

Hi everyone, I'm new here.  I installed misterhouse a
year or two ago, but never did anything with it.  Got
the latest copy a couple weeks ago and have gotten
serious about it this time.  My goals are in phases.  

1) X-10 control including lights and using motion
detectors to perform some tasks.
2) Interface with my HAI Omnistats.  They're operating
on their own right now, but eventually I'd like to be
able to watch and override them with MH.
3) Talk to the Ocelot, that's on the way, to automate
lights, perhaps some IR, and whatever else I think of.
4) Monitor the status of my NX-8E security panel.
5) Once I've got these up and running I may setup
another system to work as a DVR and to dish up VCDs
and DVDs, and move HM to it.  

Eventually I might try to setup MH for remote access,
but right now it's on my main system and there's no
way I'm opening that up to the internet.

I'd like to thank Bruce for creating MH and everyone
else who has contributed to it.  

One observation I have for anyone who reads this and
hasn't gotten MH running is that they should go read
Gordon Meyer's article, "Get to Know MisterHouse". 
The link is in the first part of the install
instructions.  For some reason I had missed it while
browsing through all the different pieces of
documentation.  There's lots of information in the
install instructions, but it wasn't until I found
Gordon's article that I was able to accomplish more
than just looking at a bunch of web screens and files.

In today's digest Charles Sullivan wrote:
> Some people have voiced complaints about the
reliability of the
> CM11A, but my experience is that most problems are
related to
> the software in use.

In my very limited time with the CM11A, I've already
experienced this first hand.  When I got my CK11A kit
a couple days ago, I installed the latest version of
Active Home (AH, I think it's fate that they chose
those 2 letters), hooked up the CM11, and tried it out
on a lamp module.  After playing around with the
settings for a bit, I finally got it to work. 
However, about 10 minutes later, it stopped working. 
I restarted AH and it was working again.  Eventually I
found the test communications option and discovered
that AH would stop talking to the CM11A.  I finally
found the options to let me stop and start
communications instead of having to restart AH.  Since
I knew my next phase was MH, I stopped playing with
AH.  Last night I finally got everything right on MH
and was able to turn lights on and off with a web
browser.  YAY!!!  The good news is the communication
problem seems to be AH, MH is still talking to the
CM11 just fine.


		
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