Re: x-10 hardware documentation

[Stuart Booth]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003 17:24:54 +0300, "Alex Ciurea" <<a
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wrote:

>So, if I want to make an application to turn on/off a lamp via a WEB
>browser, using X10, I need:
>
>- a PC with a HTPP server;

Some means of sending a xAP message that targets that lamp and tells
it what state is required here. There are many possibilities I'm sure!
Web browsers are on my own ToDo list. Somewhere... ;-)

>- a PIC/Rabbit microcontroller connected to my PC and also connected to
the
>mains (that will transmit my commands through mains - using the xAP
protocol
>via X10 - );

Is this where the CM12 device comes into play? It is connected to the
PC. You then need an application on the PC that 'knows' xAP and
additionally 'knows' the X10 CM12 interface, probably through the
serial port I imagine (haven't got this far yet myself).

It can then pick up the xAP message targetted at the lamp and convert
it to whatever signals are required to be sent to the CM12, which
deals with the mains and X10 signals.

>- a decoder for the lamp, that will decode my commands and will control
the
>dimmer;

The lamp module that the lamp is plugged into and is in turn plugged
into the mains to receive the X10 signals??

>Probably those aren't questions for the xAP mailing list, but for those
>questions I haven't found yet any answers.

I think these are very applicable to the xAP list :)))) Keep on
posting away as this is something I too am interested in. Oh for more
time...

Stuart
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