[Hai-users] Fwd: Re: Two areas for OmniPro II with lighting automation

[John Purnell]

>
thanks Dave, I forwarded your reply to this list, as the original 
question was not mine... maybe this will help Doug.

John.



>Subject: Re: [Hai-users] Two areas for OmniPro II with lighting  automation
>From: Dave Robinson <webpilotyvr at hotmail.com>
>Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 09:10:30 -0700
>To: John Purnell <imail at northsquare.com>
>
>
>Hi John,
>Do the barn and home share a common electrical service?
>
>Describe the load type(s) you're needing to control
>
>If not on a common service and you're requiring switching control 
>only, PCS Lighting Controls has released an interesting product line 
>called SimpleWorx. From the outputs on the HAI expansion board you 
>could connect any of their CCI transmitters (FMT-CC for one) to send 
>signals to their 10 or 20 amp receivers. Should be approx $80 a side 
>and several orders of magnitude more reliable than X10
>
>Cheers,
>Dave
>
>On 2012-04-21, at 8:32 AM, "John Purnell" <imail at northsquare.com> wrote:
>
> > I would try extending the X10 transmitter or the UPB transmitter 
> out to the Barn, and try sending the powerline signals from 
> controller to both the house and barn powerline interfaces. Its 
> been a long time since I was hacking x10 so i don't remember the 
> published ways to run dual interfaces, but I've always first tried 
> the easy way in these cases and just parallel the two.
> >
> > I've done this with wiegand card readers into access control 
> panels, camera signals, etc... and have had lots of reliable success.
> >
> > John P
> >
> >
> >
> > At 10:19 AM 4/7/2012, Doug Ringler wrote:
> >
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> Setting up new HAI OmniPro II with two areas, one for the main 
> house with the Board controller and another area, the barn, about 500 ft away.
> >>
> >> Understand the keypad interfaces cannot be >1000 ft total in 
> Cat6 length.  So OK.  But trying to understand how to control the 
> lighting.  Can't do X10 since the barn is on a different 
> transformer and too far anyway, which is good I guess because old 
> technology.  Can't do UPB since the switches will wig out with the 
> generators for each structure.  Can't do Z-wave due to distance and 
> lack of repeaters in between.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Doug Ringler
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