jrfuda
Active Member
Hey guys,
Thought I'd check in. I've been training for my deployment for the past three months and am set to leave in the next 10 days (they have not told us exactly when yet).
I haven't had many opportunities to check the forums - and this is my first post in any forum anywhere since leaving San Antonio in October.
The few bits of automation I left running at the house for the wife and kids has been working well. I opted to put the fewest things possible on the Ocelot and leave HS running only for logging (which is fortunate because that PC has crashed and needed a reboot a few times since I left). The ocelot has been 100% reliable controlling the handful of lights I left it running while I'm gone. I'm using a WGL V572 RF Whole House Transceiver instead of a W800 to ensure the RF X10 gets to the Ocelot... I no longer use any X10 Security devices (V572/Ocelot can't do it).
On Friday the wife called and told me the LCD RPTV stopped working. After some poking around she found the "lamp" light to be blinking... I have a replacement lamp being FedEx'd to her as we speak. She'll get to have the fun of replacing the lamp this week. I tried to convince her to let me order a replacement bulb before I left, as I knew it was near the end of its life (over 3 years old), but she didn't want to worry about it getting broken in storage... Now she asked me why I didn't already have one ready if I knew it was going to go soon... Go figure... Had I bough a backup bulb, the original probably would of lasted another year. Until the bulb arrives and she gets it installed, she's managed to move the loveseat into viewing range of the Kitchen TV so my 2 year old can watch his Dora the Explorer and such... Fortunately the Living Room, Kitchen, and Master Bedroom share the same feed(S) from the Dish DVR, so she can still watch recorded shows almost anywhere in the house.
Anyway, I hope the Cocoontech family is doing well. I should have some sort of internet access available when I get there, so I'll keep in touch.
Thought I'd check in. I've been training for my deployment for the past three months and am set to leave in the next 10 days (they have not told us exactly when yet).
I haven't had many opportunities to check the forums - and this is my first post in any forum anywhere since leaving San Antonio in October.
The few bits of automation I left running at the house for the wife and kids has been working well. I opted to put the fewest things possible on the Ocelot and leave HS running only for logging (which is fortunate because that PC has crashed and needed a reboot a few times since I left). The ocelot has been 100% reliable controlling the handful of lights I left it running while I'm gone. I'm using a WGL V572 RF Whole House Transceiver instead of a W800 to ensure the RF X10 gets to the Ocelot... I no longer use any X10 Security devices (V572/Ocelot can't do it).
On Friday the wife called and told me the LCD RPTV stopped working. After some poking around she found the "lamp" light to be blinking... I have a replacement lamp being FedEx'd to her as we speak. She'll get to have the fun of replacing the lamp this week. I tried to convince her to let me order a replacement bulb before I left, as I knew it was near the end of its life (over 3 years old), but she didn't want to worry about it getting broken in storage... Now she asked me why I didn't already have one ready if I knew it was going to go soon... Go figure... Had I bough a backup bulb, the original probably would of lasted another year. Until the bulb arrives and she gets it installed, she's managed to move the loveseat into viewing range of the Kitchen TV so my 2 year old can watch his Dora the Explorer and such... Fortunately the Living Room, Kitchen, and Master Bedroom share the same feed(S) from the Dish DVR, so she can still watch recorded shows almost anywhere in the house.
Anyway, I hope the Cocoontech family is doing well. I should have some sort of internet access available when I get there, so I'll keep in touch.
