[ale] X10 controls?

[Frank S. Glass]

Quoting Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net>:

It may be possible to harvest a non-zero code from the br command, but the
device itself is a one-way transmitter, so by nature it can't be reliable in the
communications sense.  In testing I've never seen the command fail (or rather
exit non-zero), but frequently (one time out of a hundred) I've had to power
cycle the receiver.

The x10 stuff was designed using the same criteria as Diebold voting machines. 
No audit trail, no proof that a request was acted upon.

Frank

> 
> Certainly they return a valid return code?  Wouldn't something like:
> 
> br a1 on || br a1 on
> 
> Be a better solution?
> 
> Or is it possible the execution is successful, just the transmittion fails?
> 
> -- 
> Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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