Keeping up with the Jetsons

[upstatemike]

One of the HA tricks to automating a fireplace is to use two seperate in line devices to do the switching on / off. That way it is extremely unlikely that two spurious signals will turn on both devices the same direction. You could even use two different technologies, now-a-days.

If you use X-10, use 2 different House codes or make sure the switches do not respond to "All Lights On" commands.