Re: X10 Computer Interface

["Paul Peard" <NOSPAMpaul_peard@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave,

If it works with the CM11 it will work with the CM12 - the '12 is european
cm11 - so you should be ok there - when it comes time to test then, time and
circumstances permitting then I'll help if I can. I am sure you will get
some volunteers from this forum.

Paul
"Dave" <dju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:56:14 +0000 (UTC), "Paul Peard"
> <NOSPAMpaul_peard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>PLC - powerline communications - X10 controllers. There are a few in the
>>US
>>and basically 1 in Europe - the old serial one - point is if you are going
>>to to talk to one in you software if you don't support the 1 thats
>>available
>>in Europe then you have lost some of your potential audience.
>
> I will definitely heed that advice. I wrote a freeware audio
> recorder a decade ago (http://www.davee.com/scanrec) and
> it's spread far and wide. A great deal of the downloads come
> from Europe. I used to get a lot of email and I think about
> half of it all was from Europe. So I'm sold on the huge
> market potential that Europe has to offer.
>
> At this time, I'm looking at two types of X10 outputs from
> the app. Serial and command line...I believe. Serial will be
> used to support the most common X10 controllers CM12 and
> CM11. The command line will allow people to use their own
> script languages to make the decisions on how to respond.
> Does that sound like enough? I want to be able to talk to
> the European PLC controller but will probably have to buy
> the US PLC and hope that all the keywords (or binary codes)
> are the same between the two models. Am I going to get into
> trouble with that assumption? I hope it'll be the same. Of
> course I could work with someone to help me test things that
> I can't test at home...when the time comes.
>
> Here's a screen shot of the recorder as it looks right now
> in case you're curious if it's real or not <g>:
>
> http://www.davee.com/tl2dv
>
> Dave