Scenes and X10

[Ross McKillop <home@xxxxxxx>]

Is there any way to make 'scenes' in X10 (even using some
computer-based thing rather than just hardware) basically I will have
the following;
one SS13 switch (currently A2,A3,A4 ON/OFF DIM/BRIGHT)
two LM12 (i think, the wall lamp modules)
one LD11 (the DIN lamp module, forgive me trying to do all this from
memory :P)

Configured so that A2 is the overhead light, A3 is uplighters, A4 is
table lamp..

Someone mentioned to me (not sure how easy / possible it is) that i
could use the SS13 to provide either 3 or 6 scenes, i.e. A2 ON/OFF
could be used for scene 1, A3 ON/OFF could be scene 2 etc... and the
BRIGHT / DIM button at the bottom could be used as an ALL OFF command
(something somewhere interpreting A2/3/4 BRIGHT/DIM as an off command)

Could this be done, and could the system gracefully fade between scenes
(or do i need C-Bus for that?)

What would I need to do this, and is it that easy (i'm new to X10 so
forgive the stupid questions!) also the way I understood it even if a
PC somewhere was interpreting all these X10 commands and issuing
alternatives the modules would then need different codes (e.g. A5/6/7)
so by trying to implement this I'd need twice as many codes as normal?

This brings me to my next question, is it possible to have an RF X10
Transmitter transmit ONLY to a PC which then interprets it and issues
X10 commands via a power-line interface thing?

Sorry if this is two many newbie questions for one eMail, but X10
really isn't my area of expertise!  -  from what i've seen i'd much
rather use C-Bus but it's too difficult to make the floorstanding and
table lamps fit in - SWMBO would NOT let me start making more holes in
walls... we just had them fixed! :P

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Ross McKillop


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