RE: PC interface to door push

["James, Daniel" <daniel.james@xxxxxxx>]

I cannibalised a minitimer to link to my doorbell, back gate & garage
door.

I took the buttons on the top apart and wired the contacts out to the
various switches, So when someone presses my Doorbell, Homeseer receives
an
X10 A1 "On" and runs a script, you could then include in this
script an
action, to turn a device on, play a wav file.... etc.. 

I put a relay board in between the doorbell and the minitimer, to
isolate
the doorbell from the X10 Minitimer, and to allow the doorbell to
operate
both the X10 A1 "On" switch and run the conventional doorbell, so
that the
doorbell works regardless.

This has so far worked well.

Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: David Yeend [mailto:david.yeend@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 May 2002 13:48
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] PC interface to door push


You could simply use an X10 PIR to detect presence, although the alert
would
be raised for the postman etc.

Alternatively you could use a PIR to detect presence and turn on an
outside
light during the hours of darkness - justifies the PIR. Then modify the
PIR,
remove the light sensor and wire the button across it.

This would give 2 levels of alert if you wanted - movement in the area
covered by the PIR and someone pressing the button.

David.

-----Original Message-----
From: kinchyuk [mailto:kinchyuk@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 28 May 2002 13:19
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] PC interface to door push



Sorry if this one has been covered recently, I've been a bit missing 
>from
I want to hook up a door push to Homeseer, which then does the 
necessary alerting. I've looked at the X10 powerflash, but that seems 
a bit of a waste of time (and money!) to go from button to X10, then 
X10 back to Homeseer - even more so considering the run from the 
Homeseer box to the door is < 10m.

So I guess I'm after some way of getting an external trigger into 
Homeseer via a PC. I'm sure it's stupidly simple but I just can't 
quite get my head around it. Would I need some sort of PCI 
interfacing card?

Alex



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