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RE: What's the cheapest X10 generating device with PC interface?
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- Subject: RE: What's the cheapest X10 generating device with
PC interface?
- From: "Nikola Kasic" <nikola@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 11:08:25 +0100
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Ant,
Do you
have drivers or API for XM10U for Windows, so Graham can interface his
application and send X10 commands through this.
Graham
is currently looking for ways to interface his application (Home
Automator),
which will be free, to CM12U or something similar like this. He has
interfaces
towards HV and DDAR. Can you help him in any way?
Nik
Nikola Kasic
wrote:
> In a context of great Home Automator software, I would
like
to know
> what's the cheapest device that can generate X10 commands
and
have an
> interface to PC.
>
> Is it
CM12U?
The
cheapest PC<->X10 interface is the XM10U, aka the TW7223, which you
can get for about 30 sovs.
http://www.letsautomate.com/10215.cfm?CFID=44338&CFTOKEN=29264220
c.f.
50 quid for the CM12U.
The XM10U is an X10 interface and nothing
more,
it won't remember any
macros or do any of that groovy jazz. Also,
you're
pretty much on your
own for software for it, although if you're
treading
the path of linux
enlightenment I can mail you the driver I wrote for
it,
and you can
cruft up your own control stuff in perl, mister house,
whatever.
> Also, if I want to develop such a device,
will I
have to pay any
> licencing fees for using X10 protocol if it's
patented?
Yes. What a lot of manufacturers do in their x10
capable
devices is
provide an interface to an XM10U, which you then generally
buy
separately, neatly sidestepping the whole issue. This is what the XM10U
is really intended for. However, you can hook it up to a PC's parallel
port and drive it from there without much bother.
ant
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