MeSue;390466 Wrote: > I just bought some X10 stuff for the lights in the bedroom. If I wanted > to control this with the SBC, I would need the Firecracker gadget from > X10, right? I don't have a serial port on my server. Is there a > serial/usb adapter that works with it?
You're on Windows, right? You'd need a Firecracker *and* an RF receiver/transceiver like the TM751 that would translate the Firecracker RF signals into powerline X10 commands. I would hope & 70% expect that any decent USB-to-serial adapter could be used with the Firecracker, but I don't own any USB-to-serial adapter myself. A CM11A powerline controller should be usable with some work, but I'd need to compile some DLLs to get the CPAN module working, as the 'heyu' app will never work under Windows. It would probably be easier to use a SmartHome 2412s serial controller that can handle X10 and Insteon. I've had poor luck with powerline X10, but recent tests with Insteon gear suggests that's mainly because the UPS that my SqueezeCenter host is plugged into wrecks powerline signals. I couldn't even get the more reliable** Insteon powerline to work until I plugged the UPS into an X10 noise filter device. With the Firecracker, I could locate the RF transceiver far enough from the SC host that it could send signals fairly reliably. -Peter ** Insteon works really well once you've got it set up properly. I not only had to add an RF access point on each phase, but use some X10 noise filters and add some currently unused lamp and appliance modules to relay the Insteon commands. The end result is better than X10, but considerably more expensive. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KidsPlay KitchenTimer PlayLog PowerCenter/BottleRocket SaverSwitcher SettingsManager SleepFade StatusFirst SyncOptions VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58961 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
