I can imagine. Kinda like the commercial on TV with the guy hitting the switch in his house and the neighbors garage door keeps slamming down on the car.

X10 is first generation,still not a bad system for a do it yourselfer!

They are easy to do Lisa. When you get into your new house. I'll guide you through some "Mods" !

 

Let's see how my memory works.The summer of 1992 my oldest daughter divorced her husband. Biggest reason probably being they could not produce a child, and he liked spending more time playing pool and drinking beer after work. She was living in Chicago and her mother and I and her siblings were in Buffalo. That fall she asked if she were to come to our house for Thanksgiving could she bring a male guest. We said sure. They had not been there for 2 days and I called her aside and told her this young man is too good to be true, he has got to be married. They do not last that long on the market with what he has to offer. She let it go at that and so did I.

Come Christmas morning early, the phone rings with a tearful Kristin on the other end of the line, "Daddy, how did you know"? I said know what. She said you were right, he is married and has 3 children. He called me this morning from a pay phone explaining why he could not spend Xmas with me as he and his wife had decided to try harder to make their marriage work as a Xmas present to their children. Now whether they were ever separated or not we don't know. The point is I was right and she was crying. I was on a plane by 10 a.m. Buffalo time and in Chicago by noon Chicago time and stayed with her until New Years eve. She will never forget that. It did kind of **** her mother off though, but her mother spent about 35 years being pissed at me anyway.

Years later at an after work happy hour Kristin and a bunch of her girlfriends were having a discussion about which of them may have the neatest dad. Kristin won hands down, the above story among others, I guess the most memorable other one being the father daughter trip to Alaska one summer. Just her and I in the motor home I owned at the time. She was about 17 at the time. Why she was the only one out of the 3 chosen to accompany me that year evades me right now, but she was a tough one to raise. Too damn good looking for her own good, and a real handful between the ages of 14 and 18. I would rather raise 10 sons to one daughter. I think most fathers will agree with this. I had bought her a Monte Carlo as an award for some kind of good behavior at about the age of 19, it was not to long before a bumper sticker appeared on the car that read.....THE OLDER I GET....THE SMARTER MY PARENTS GET!

 

Jay, Im about 20 min from Disney, Let me know when your in the area.

My mom is/was a disney freak. and with so many kida in my family (5) its was pretty popular growing up

Thats pretty funny

 

That is an awesome story Mark. Thanks for sharing it with us. I can see why your daughter won hands down!!

 

A girl only needs a few things to be strong and successful.

She needs to know how to use her head
and she needs a good dad.



Good story Mark.

 

Not ripping on you Chris but that is not the most reliable or versatile system out there.

Edit: Dang I am a slow reader AND typist

 

I'll talk to all of you later off to see the doctor.

 

That commercial is hilarious!

IIRC, don't some car manufacturers offer some sort of Homelink service for remote lighting and stuff?

 

No worries, it's just what came up on a Google search. I am not an expert on any of that stuff.

 

Hey anyone wanna play Walmart Bingo?

 

Cool. Don't want to make anybody feel bad. Before I worked here we repped the X10 line also.

 

I think all of us have probably seen almost all of those.

 

The truth is written on this bingo card.

 

Mark- Good story, I see why she won also.

Thats funny I saw that the other day on anthoer site but the pic was to small for me to read..

 

I checked for any kind of timer. Nothing of the sort even exists on the TV.

My closest neighbor is to the right side of the house that would face the back of the TV, and their TV is even facing the opposite direction of my house. I don't have any close neighbors behind me or off to the left side of the house, so I'm not thinking it's a neighbor's remote bouncing around a signal. I just don't see how that could happen with the location of everything.

The TV is IR, not RF. Could RF be affecting IR?

Good news is the TV was not on this morning. That's the first morning since Sunday that I've got up and it's not been on. Now, I'll just have to see when I get home this evening if it's on or not.

Old school stuff there! I remember looking through their catalogs (catalogs are what existed before the internet -- it's like a whole website printed out) when I was a kid and thinking how cool that stuff was. That was some innovative stuff back then.