Re: Cell Phones and X-10

["Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@xxxxxxxxx>]

bill_hale@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote

> I was pretty excited when I found cellautomation.
> But the posts were in 2003.

> I want to be able to control a few X10 controllers at a remote site
> using a cell phone as the receiver.  This would replace a commercial
> phone line that is nearly $100 per month that gets used about 3X per
> month.

> Is there a way to do this?  Maybe it's illegal.  I've read
> that you can't transmit tones, but I don't believe that...

Yeah, cant see that it can be illegal given that so many
systems use those to route incoming calls etc.

> I can CALL the X10 current phone responder
> with my cell phone and it works fine on tones.