Re: Re: Sensors / Switches / etc

["Dan" <dtoma@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Andy,

What I want to understand is the reason to use ethernet based home
automation devices and not something serial using a single wire which is a
lot cheaper and easy to be build (even using a spare pair from a CAT5
cable.).

Ant comments are wellcome.

Best regards,
Dan



----- Original Message -----
From: "UKHA" <ukha@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Sensors / Switches / etc


> Dan,
>
> go to http://www.zworld.com
>
> You can take a look at http://www.automated.it/default.asp?pagename=rabbit
> to see one I made earlier.
>
> I did find some code on the web to directly connect a ds1620 to the
rabbit
> but I can't for the life of me get it to work... Patrick if you have
anything like
> this working I'd be interested to see where I am going wrong..
>
> Andy
>
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> On 14/04/2003 at 13:10 Dan wrote:
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> >HI Patrick,
> >
> >> ......
> >> I was thinking about the homebrew hardware side of thing. A
serial
> >> PIC temperature sensor can be built for a component cost of
around 8
> >> quid. The cheapest ethernet enabled hardware that I can make
xAP
> >> compliant is around 45 quid...
> >
> >How do you implement the ethernet interface in a home made device?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Dan
> >
> >>
> >> Patrick
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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