Re: X10 programming from PC

["frank.agee@xxxxxxxxx" <frank.agee@xxxxxxxxx>]

AZ Woody, looks like I can't add you because I can't get your complete
email address.

Why don't you just click on my link and join up.  Register with google
if you are not already.

frank.agee@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Niel?  Do you mean Neil Cherry?  I have his book right here.  Looks
> like there is also a CM17.
>
> Anyone using HomePlug for home automation?  They say it can also speak
> to X-10.
>
> I hadn't realized there was a culture chasm between usenets and google
> groups.
>
> I started a google group because I'm familiar with them, and its
> available and free.
>
> You can communicate with it by just email.  But you have some extra
> abilities if you register with google and do it from there.
>
> I'll try and add you now.  You can unsubscribe yourself real easy if
> you don't like it.
>
> If you register with google, you can stay in, but alter your email
> preferences.
>
> AZ Woody wrote:
> > It's "Linux" and not "Finux", and Neil posts here quite often.
> >
> > The CM11/12 is made by X10, but there are other things like it available
> > from other vendors....
> >
> > Why join a google group, when the author is here on usenet?
> >
> >
> > frank.agee@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Who makes these CM11 and CM12 units?  Do other people make such?
> > >
> > > Have you read Finux Smart Homes for Dummies, by Neil Cherry?
> > >
> > > Come Join:
> > > http://groups.google.com/group/realtime_signal_and_control
> > >
> > > realtime_signal_and_control@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > >
> > > Geordie wrote:
> > >> "Staiger" <Staiger@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > >> news:g-adnYo8t_qaH43YRVny2g@xxxxxxxxx
> > >>> In my experience the CM11/12 is the most unreliable piece of junk you can
> > >>> buy.  I've been using ActiveHome recently, like Geordie, and have found
> > >>> that after a few downloads of "timers and macros" the CM11 just stops
> > >>> responding. There are clearly problems with the software in the CM11/12,
> > >>> and it's appalling that the manufacturers haven't fixed it after all these
> > >>> years.
> > >>>
> > >>> However, if you unplug it, remove the batteries and wait, refit the
> > >>> batteries, plug it in and start again it works again.  Obviously a
> > >>> software lockup.
> > >>>
> > >>> My suggestion to Geordie is to do that, rather than replacing the unit,
> > >>> when it goes wrong next time (which it surely will).
> > >>>
> > >>> Incidentally, I'm pretty unhappy with ActiveHome.  It's a 16-bit
> > >>> application which hasn't been updated in years, and has a very clunky look
> > >>> and feel to it.  I tried Harmony, but it looks like it's been put together
> > >>> by someone who's just learned Visual Basic so, like Geordie, I also will
> > >>> be writing my own control program.
> > >>>
> > >>> Geordie, what programming language/environment are you using?  I was gonna
> > >>> use Delphi, with which I'm reasonably familiar.
> > >>>
> > >>> Thack
> > >> One thing that convinced me my CM12 was beyond hope, was that it didn't get
> > >> warm in the right places (around the transformer).  I had effectively
> > >> already done a cold-start when I tried replacing the batteries without
> > >> effect.
> > >>
> > >> After I replaced the unit, I opened it up.  The build quality reminded me
> > >> 1960's transistor radios - the first ones, just after they stopped using
> > >> miniature valves.  Paper-based PCB, globs of solder and globs of rubber
> > >> cement (do I really want something like this connected to the househuld
> > >> wiring?).  This was a serial-port version - I don't know whether the
> > >> replacement USB versions are any better.
> > >>
> > >> My software is on the back burner now that the system is running again (and,
> > >> when the h/w is so flaky, do I really want to spend time writing s/w for
> > >> it?).  I'm using C++Builder - I like Borland's language products but prefer
> > >> C(++) to Pascal.
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >> Geordie
> > >