Re: X10 programming from PC

["frank.agee@xxxxxxxxx" <frank.agee@xxxxxxxxx>]

Niel?  Do you mean Neil Cherry?  I have his book right here.  Looks
like there is also a CM17.

Anyone using HomePlug for home automation?  They say it can also speak
to X-10.

I hadn't realized there was a culture chasm between usenets and google
groups.

I started a google group because I'm familiar with them, and its
available and free.

You can communicate with it by just email.  But you have some extra
abilities if you register with google and do it from there.

I'll try and add you now.  You can unsubscribe yourself real easy if
you don't like it.

If you register with google, you can stay in, but alter your email
preferences.

AZ Woody wrote:
> It's "Linux" and not "Finux", and Neil posts here quite often.
>
> The CM11/12 is made by X10, but there are other things like it available
> from other vendors....
>
> Why join a google group, when the author is here on usenet?
>
>
> frank.agee@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
> > Who makes these CM11 and CM12 units?  Do other people make such?
> >
> > Have you read Finux Smart Homes for Dummies, by Neil Cherry?
> >
> > Come Join:
> > http://groups.google.com/group/realtime_signal_and_control
> >
> > realtime_signal_and_control@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> > Geordie wrote:
> >> "Staiger" <Staiger@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> news:g-adnYo8t_qaH43YRVny2g@xxxxxxxxx
> >>> In my experience the CM11/12 is the most unreliable piece of junk you can
> >>> buy.  I've been using ActiveHome recently, like Geordie, and have found
> >>> that after a few downloads of "timers and macros" the CM11 just stops
> >>> responding. There are clearly problems with the software in the CM11/12,
> >>> and it's appalling that the manufacturers haven't fixed it after all these
> >>> years.
> >>>
> >>> However, if you unplug it, remove the batteries and wait, refit the
> >>> batteries, plug it in and start again it works again.  Obviously a
> >>> software lockup.
> >>>
> >>> My suggestion to Geordie is to do that, rather than replacing the unit,
> >>> when it goes wrong next time (which it surely will).
> >>>
> >>> Incidentally, I'm pretty unhappy with ActiveHome.  It's a 16-bit
> >>> application which hasn't been updated in years, and has a very clunky look
> >>> and feel to it.  I tried Harmony, but it looks like it's been put together
> >>> by someone who's just learned Visual Basic so, like Geordie, I also will
> >>> be writing my own control program.
> >>>
> >>> Geordie, what programming language/environment are you using?  I was gonna
> >>> use Delphi, with which I'm reasonably familiar.
> >>>
> >>> Thack
> >> One thing that convinced me my CM12 was beyond hope, was that it didn't get
> >> warm in the right places (around the transformer).  I had effectively
> >> already done a cold-start when I tried replacing the batteries without
> >> effect.
> >>
> >> After I replaced the unit, I opened it up.  The build quality reminded me
> >> 1960's transistor radios - the first ones, just after they stopped using
> >> miniature valves.  Paper-based PCB, globs of solder and globs of rubber
> >> cement (do I really want something like this connected to the househuld
> >> wiring?).  This was a serial-port version - I don't know whether the
> >> replacement USB versions are any better.
> >>
> >> My software is on the back burner now that the system is running again (and,
> >> when the h/w is so flaky, do I really want to spend time writing s/w for
> >> it?).  I'm using C++Builder - I like Borland's language products but prefer
> >> C(++) to Pascal.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Geordie
> >