15 Feb
2002
15 Feb
'02
5:21 p.m.
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, M H Stein wrote:
You may find that interfacing to X-10 is a little
easier today than it was then, with friendlier stuff
from X-10 and also Micromint's PLIX chip/kit (the same
folks who brought us the elsewhere-mentioned 80C52-BASIC).
I used this device somewhat recently:
http://www.hometech.com/brains/marrick.html#MA-RS232L
It allows you to send simple X10 commands over your serial port that then
get translated to the correct protocol. It's a very nice solution.
Here's another similar device I just discovered that's much cooler and
much cheaper:
http://www.smarthome.com/1132.html
I have an X10 computer control mdoule for a TRS-80 and also one that is an
S-100 card ;)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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