WOW! X-10! You’re dating yourself. I think I have a few pieces of that stuff in the back of a desk drawer…
-D > On Jan 14, 2024, at 5:34 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > >> Yup. Not allowed around my house. > > Nor here. We do have some X-10 stuff for timed lights. (The Christmas > lights, and Malibu LV walkway lights.) One X-10 wall switch for running > the porch lights, all timed (open-loop) from sunset to 11:30 currently. > > The Christmas light channel only operates from the day after Thanksgiving > through January. (This is all cron-driven, with a sunset shell script set for > our latitude.) The D-NIX controller has been running 24/7 since 1996 > or thereabouts. If it ever needs replacing I'd probably put in an RPi. > It also talks to a custom 68HC11 watchdog interface to water the lawn. > > X-10 doesn't listen to anything, sometimes not even the X-10 interface! > The X-10 interface is an old Radio Shack thing, RS-232 at 600 baud. > > -- Jim > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
