Re: DIY HA bus

[Nigel Orr <Nigel.Orr@xxxxxxx>]

At 09:46 17/07/00 -0400, you wrote:
>there was mention of lighting controllers and how you could have a
switch to
>turn all lights on/off etc.

X10 allows that sort of thing, at a fairly basic level.

> activated.  Some clever software (well, not too clever) could then map
these
>ids to some DIN mounted relays via some serial interface.  Each relay
would
>be connected to a single light.

Yup, you can do all that, if I understood you correctly, either using X10
or a wired system, either controlled by a PC or a standalone controller.

> As I said, just some thoughts.....  So tell me it's already been
>done/wouldn't work and I'll shut up!!!

Been done, should work, costs money, various different systems
available.  But I might have missed some subtlety in your question asking
about some aspect that _hasn't_ been done, so you don't have to shut up :-)

X10, Homevision, Comfort etc spring to mind and there are other ones like
InstaBus, CAN etc which I'm not so familiar with- if none of those mean
anything to you, have a look at Mark McCall's pages at
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk .

Nigel


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