Re: powerlinc usb control api

["John" <weekender_ny@xxxxxxxxx>]

I will have a look at the girder software. Will call them on monday
about more information. Wish this kind of a software was freeware
thou :) Shouldnt be hard to send and recieve x10 signals using
powerlinc usb...I guess I wont buy from smarthome ever again :)

Thanks,
--j

Pan galactic gargleblaster wrote:
> "John" <weekender_ny@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:1130874436.839563.264890
> @o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:
>
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have a way to control the powerlinc usb api using
> > python on cygwin? python on linux? Perl or any other scripting
> > language on windows? Smarthome doesnt seem eager to supply
> > the apis for the powerlinc usb i just bought.
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your help,
> > --j
> >
>
> If you are willing to have a 3-rd party application running and use
> windows, you can use girder (www.promixis.com) with the powerlinc USB v1
> (i.e. the X10 only version NOT the new inssteon one). Girder v3.x has a
> working powerlinc plugin that can accept and send standard and extended
> x10 commands. Girder has a command line tool that allows you to send
> events to it so it can be used from any scripting language.