[NBLUG/talk] Setting up X-10 home automation

[Tony Fardella]

Try smarthome.com. They'll have what you're looking for and more. For 
instance take a look at the I/O Link product 
http://www.smarthome.com/1624.html which will let you control relays.

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  Tony Fardella
email: tonyf at sonic.net
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On Aug 20, 2005, at 8:24 AM, Lincoln Peters wrote:

> I'd like to use my Linux box to control a few appliances in my house, 
> such as
> a lamp that I use as an alarm clock (my college schedule is too 
> complex for
> an ordinary appliance timer to handle).  Of course, being a home 
> automation
> technology that runs on Linux, I'm sure that once I've set it up, I'll 
> find
> more wild and crazy applications for it.
>
> However, the biggest obstacle I've encountered thus far is that I 
> can't find
> any place that sells all of the necessary hardware.  Radio Shack 
> carries the
> control modules but not the parts that allow the computer to control 
> them,
> and nowhere else that I've looked seems to carry any of them.
>
> Thus, I have two questions for anyone who uses X-10 (and I know 
> *someone* here
> uses it):
>
> 1. Where do you buy X-10 hardware?  Is there any place that sells it 
> locally?
> (I'd like to have it installed and configured by Wednesday, if 
> possible.)
>
> 2. Any caveats I should know about regarding X-10 controllers?  I'm 
> already
> aware that it's a good idea to send each command twice in case it got
> corrupted the first time, and some devices have a tendency to create
> electrical "noise" that interferes with the signals.
>
>
> -- 
> Lincoln Peters
> <sampln at sbcglobal.net>
>
> hangover, n.:
> 	The wrath of grapes.
>
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