Re: PC Controlled Lighting

[shb*NO*SPAM*@comporium.net (Si Ballenger)]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:11:54 +0100, "Calm-Down"
<whitwellandniton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi
>
>Hopefully I am posting this to the correct forum.  I am a UK resident and
>would like a solution for the following:
>
>I have a PC acting as the centre for my Home Theatre - As a little touch I
>would like a cheap option to add to the PC so as to control the lighting in
>the Home Theatre.
>
>Lighting is currently controlled from a 240v wall switch which controls 3
>separate lights in the room.  I also would like to control a small table
>lamp which plugs into a conventional wall plug socket.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Piers (UK)

The "cheapest" pc control would probably be using an X10
firecracker controlled by batch files run by the computer. Don't
know if firecracker/x10 stuff would work on UK systems.