On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Royce Souther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone done this or looked into it? > > I want to get an idea what equipment I would need and what software is out > there. I would like to have a few touch screen displays throughout my house > that can be used to control thermostat, select music, see security cameras > and control lights with something like X10, tie into the Asterisk system and > check phone messages all that fun stuff. > > I found lots of wall mount touch screen computes but they all come with some > proprietary software and cost way more then they really should. I want to > use some Linux GUI kind of like MythTV to control these features and be able > to custom program it.
You want a device called a firecracker, that is a X10 device that uses RS-232 to communicate to the device in this link: http://www.aartech.ca/x10-m-1.html?catid=40 you can write a simple script that sends data to your serial port to control several devices. Google "x10 firecracker". _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
