Re: Sending commands between Linux and Windows

[Charles Sullivan <cwsulliv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If your X10 interface is a CM11A, consider running it on the Linux server
instead of the Win XP machine and using Heyu (http://www.heyu.org) to
handle the X10 signals and run your scripts for you.

Regards,
Charles Sullivan

On Mon, 08 May 2006 06:11:23 +0000, Renoir wrote:

>   I run all my X10 hardware on my PC, and alot of other applications on my
>  dedicated Linux server (Fedora Core 3).
>
>  What I want to be able to do is have scripts run commands on the other
>  machine in response to events. For instance, if my Apache server goes down,
>  the Linux server tells the PC to ring an X10 chime and turn on a light. Or
>  if I get frontdoor motion, the PC tells the Linux server to log the event
> in
>  a secured web directory.
>
>  The problem is that, as obvious as the issue seems to be, I can find no
>  solutions. I'm thinking something like rsh would do the trick, but I can't
>  find any decent and free rsh stuff for Windows/XP. I found some choppy
>  source codes for a Windows port of rshd that I couldn't compile, but I
>  couldn't find any ready solution.
>
>  Does anybody have good solutions for this? And does anybody have a good rsh
>  client and server for a Windows XP machine?
>
>  Thanks
>  Curtis