As far as I know, industrial automation companies like OMRON (or maybe Johnson Controls, Honeywell and Yamatake also) are now offering cheap version of their PLCs for under 10K. Target is mainly home automation. These cheap PLCs can be programmed to control your house (like sprinkler valve) by programming it through serial port (try minicom).
If you do not have any experience in electronic design of these controllers, I suggest that you do not attempt. These controllers are designed to meet tons of regulated safety rules to make sure that in the event of accident (like lighting strikes) they will fail without burning your house. -rowel --- Brian Baquiran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are any PLUGgers into HA as well? > > I'm thinking of setting up my house for centralized automation, > specifically, controlling appliances and stuff from my PC. While I can > certainly wire up a couple of optoisolators and relays to the parallel > port, I'm hoping there's a more professional (commercial) way of doing > things. Will the X10 modules available in the US work here? > > If there are no locally available control systems, I guess I'll just > have to build my own. > > Brian > -- > "Rebooting does not make you smarter." > -- Mark Misani > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at > http://plug.linux.org.ph > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
