Re: anyone know when x10 could first set the codes electronically?

["BruceR" <br@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think you're right about the socket rocket. That was probably the
first one. Leviton followed up after that.


> I thought things like the "socket rocket" have been around at least
> since 1998.  The X-10 handheld MBR remotes set the housecodes
> electronically - they've been around for quite some time.  My
> instruction booklet file shows the remotes existed at least as early
> as May 1999.  IIRC, there's no code wheel on the CM11A and that's
> been around since 1998, at least according to a file sort by date in
> my X-10 online files.  I'm not sure exactly what the OP wants to
> track:
>
> 1) first non-codewheel unit
> 2) proximity programming via Maxi console - as in the socket rocket
> 3) programming via button press sequence (like the EagleEye PIR
> transmitters).
>
> I dimly recall a Bearcat 101 scanner that had sixteen lever switches
> in front that allowed you to set frequencies electronically by
> translating the binary numbers you entered via switch position.
> That's got to be at least 20 years old, maybe even 30.  There's
> doubtless loads of prior art on electronic code selection, probably
> going back to the famous cryptographic machines of WWII.
>
>
> "BruceR" <br@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:wFX5g.4276$yM.2633@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> IIRC, for receivers at least, Leviton was first about 5 or 6 years
>> ago. Smarthome came out with them at about the same time.