Re: X10 RF Link Command Translater

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Dave Houston" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

> Jeff,
>
> What I did with the BX24-AHT and what I had planned to duplicate with the
> CM15X was to allow users to determine the response to any RF command
> (including those from X-10 security devices). The default action was to
just
> do a normal response but the user could select which housecodes to
> transceive and do things like have an 'A1 ON' RF command trigger a totally
> different PLC code (or macro). They could also do nothing for individual
> codes like the extra codes sent by EagleEyes, etc.

That sounds great!  Hopefully Jeff will carry on some part of this excellent
design feature.

> Also, with additional IR or RF receivers (of other frequencies) on an
RS485
> network you can get inputs from non-X10 devices. With other devices you
> might transmit RF codes for ceiling fans, etc.

That could be useful.  More and more things are coming with IR controls.
This year I bought both a window AC and a space heater with IR controls.

> There's really a lot of potential. I had envisioned it as a central
> switchboard for HA.
>
> The BX24-AHT had a little less EEPROM left for this than the CM15A has
> available and I was using it rather wastefully by allowing the 100 custom
> responses to contain 20 character strings. If the 8K EEPROM in the CM15A
is
> too small, you can replace it with up to 32K.

Is it socketed or is this a solder job?

--
Bobby G.