Centauri's Thoughts

The use of motion detectors for turning on specific lights in the house has been a resounding success.

Part of the reason for this success has been clearly thinking out where these motion detectors are placed, and when they are to be triggered. The motion detectors have a setting for a) detecting ALL motion (day or night) or b) only make detection changes at night. The difference here is one acts like a motion activated night light, and the other is a 24x7 sentry of movement.

Next to be acquired is the in-line screw-in bulb X10 module. This will be most useful for a) porchlights and b) a single bulb in a lamp tree of three.

Also on the way is a doorbell sounding chime activated on a specific code.

I'll be writing about the heyu program for unix to communicate with the CM11 module in a separate post.