Re: PowerMax+ telephone line comms & XM10U?

["Dave Ward" <DFHWukha@xxxxxxxxx>]

Richard,

Doesn't the phone line and the X10 have separate connectors?
I have a PowerMax+ with PSTN, X10 and the GSM Dialer.
(well, there's a cable connected the the X10 but I don't have a XM10U atm)
The phone line connection on my PowerMax+ is via a removable Screw
terminal.

The GSM dialer comes with a RS232 interface PCB (The same as the one
that comes with the PC Software package) The fialer has a pass through
sonnector and I can plug the PC or PowerLink (If I could buy one) into
this.  I imagine that the Powerlink module would also have a pass
through to allow connection of PC or GSM Dialer.

Relating to this, can anyone point me to a spectification for the
XM10U interface protocol, i.e what will PowerMax+ send and expect to
receive when 2 way X10 is enabled?
I'm thinking that I may knock together a microcontroller that speaks
XM10U'ish and translates that into ASCII RS232 to allow PowerMax to
control more than just X10 devices....


Dave

Richard Parker wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've got the PowerMax+ configured to send X10 commands via the XM10U
> interface working nicely... but now I want to be able to use the
> communicating features of the alarm to telephone me if there's a
problem (or
> allow remote control of the system over the PSTN). Problem is, the
link to
> the XM10U uses the onboard RJ11 slot - so am I right in thinking
this is a
> 'one or the other' scenario? If so, that's actually a bit pants
isn't it -
> since I would also want to add the PowerLink module (if they ever
get the
> problems resolved with it) too...
>
> Rich



--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Richard Parker"
<mr.richard.parker@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've got the PowerMax+ configured to send X10 commands via the XM10U
> interface working nicely... but now I want to be able to use the
> communicating features of the alarm to telephone me if there's a
problem (or
> allow remote control of the system over the PSTN). Problem is, the
link to
> the XM10U uses the onboard RJ11 slot - so am I right in thinking
this is a
> 'one or the other' scenario? If so, that's actually a bit pants
isn't it -
> since I would also want to add the PowerLink module (if they ever
get the
> problems resolved with it) too...
>
> Rich
>
>
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