RE: What's the cheapest X10 generating device with PC interface?

["Nikola Kasic" <nikola@xxxxxxx>]

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Ant Skelton [mailto:ant@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 17 May 2002 18:05
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: Re: [ukha_d] What's the cheapest X10 generating device with PC interface?

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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