For reasons I noted in my previous post, X-10 simply isn’t feasible for the type of setup I want. It’s too slow. But it sure makes wiring a breeze! As I put up our standard decorations this year, I realized that there was one decoration that X-10 may make sense for. The candles in the windows. It would be next to impossible to wire them up via any other type of wired control without wires strung all over the house. So in this case X-10 makes sense. I can use X-10 Lamp Modules to control the candles and this will allow them to be controlled as part of he show. The remaining question is will it be worth controlling them as they don’t tend to be very bright, but if all the other lights were shut down, they would stand out.
In order to include X-10, I just need to include a routine to send out X-10 commands via the main controller. I’ll also have to include some type of throttling for the X-10 commands since they can’t react as fast as DMX. Perhaps only let the states flip or a dim sequence be sent every X seconds. Otherwise it would impact any other X-10 use in the house. We’ll see.
Regardless of the details, I may be able to utilize X-10 in a way that makes sense, even if just for a small part of the over all show.
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