Re: Receiving security RF codes from DS10A

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

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

> jmj1492@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >The only device I know of that could receive and act on RF codes from
> >the X10 security devices was Dave Houston's BX24-AHT (all house codes
> >transceiver).
> >
> >This was a DIY project and preceeded the WGL - and was 100x more
> >powerful.
> >
> >You might Google on BX24-AHT, or perhaps Dave will chime in here.

Thanks for the info, JMJ.  I'll relay it to the Adicon forum.  As you
predicted, Dave did indeed add his comments:

> Some circuit boards for the BX24-AHT will soon be available again along
with
> the firmware for the BX-24 and the Windows interface software. I've given
> the inventory of boards, the firmware, software and docs to someone who
> plans to make them available.

Great.  Is the BX24-AHT going to be able to perform tricks such as using ALL
OFF for an escape code or will the more powerful Rosetta be required to do
that?  The WGL transceiver looked attractive until I discovered that the
Ocelot can't do anything with the serial output of the device.  As JMJ
noted, it's really not in the same league as your device(s) - it doesn't
seem to offer much in the way of configurability.

> I am going to try to port the firmware to the ZX-24 which will improve it
> significantly since the ZX-24 has full duplex software UARTs, more speed
> (10x) and a more efficient compiler (more EEPROM available for user data).
I
> will try to release the ZX-24 source code as an App Note on the ZBasic
> website. The ZX-24 eliminates most of the "gotchas" I ran into with the
> BX-24.

What were some of the limitations of the older unit?   It sounds like the ZX
is faster, more capable and has more memory.

> Rosetta,

Nice name choice!

> which is the universal translator device I'm working on, will be
> able to receive standard X-10 RF using an MR26 and both receive from and
> send to anything that currently uses a TW523, a CM11A, 2414S, UPB PIM,
> CPU-XA, Ocelot, Leopard, or any 9600 bps or less serial device which uses
> ASCII.

Once again, pardon my utter stupidity, but I just read a post by Guy Lavoie
in the ADI forum that said: "The serial bobcat can only transmit data.
Currently, there is no ADI module capable of receiving and matching an
arbitrary format ASCII string or binary data."  How will Rosetta tell the
Ocelot about what RF it is seeing?

>Rosetta will also have an optional Ethernet interface and hardware
> RTC. I developed a replacement PIC for the MR26 which allows it to also
> handle security RF a couple of years ago - I'll try to find a way to make
> this available again as well for use with Rosetta. Rosetta will also use a
> ZX-24. See the "translator question" thread for more on Rosetta.

OK.  Ethernet would be nice to have.  How much extra cost do you think it
will add to the project?

--
Bobby G.