AVR is fine. So is a second hand wrap or alix. More expensive than X10 :-) mind you. However, X-10 is a very unreliable protocol, you're better off toggling a GPIO line which, in turn, toggles on ptocoupler... eBay _is_ your friend. m
On Apr 21, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Erez D wrote: > hi guys. > > i have a warehouse. it has two connections to the buildings - power and > ethernet. > > i want to control the warehouse external lights from the house. > > I thought of buying an X10 light switch, but it seems that each consts around > 50$, which is expensive > so my other option is a computer i can control (prefferably a linux box, > somthing like nslu2). > > so: > 1. anybody knows of a cheap place to buy X10 stuff (or somthing similiar) ? > 2. what is the cheepest "computer" (doesn't have to be a full computer, an > avr with ethernet and gpio will do) ? > > thanks. > erez. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il Marc Volovic [email protected] _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
