Homeowner Forum / Home Automation / November 2003

Is there anything out there that enables one to control line-voltage
thermostats for baseboard electric heat in the home?  Would like to use a PC
to control temperature in each room and be able to turn back all rooms at
night and during day when no one is home.

I have a light switch on address A6.  With my Powerhouse HR12A remote
control, I can turn the light on and off.  ActiveHome "sees" the light go on
and off on it's display.  But I cannot turn the light on or off from
ActiveHome so my timer doesn't work.  Every other address I have ...

See Mom.  See Mom sit.  Mom is 75 years old and spends much of her day
(and night) in her recliner watching TV.  Mom gets hot or cold at the
drop of a hat.  Mom doesn't move so well anymore.  Mom hates having to
get up to turn up or down the temperature on her wall-mounted

Hello, i'm studing electronics, and i have a problem with a practice.
We measure the output of a serial port in the PC, with an oscilloscope
and a universal counter, and later they ask me to compare the
rise/fall time that we measure with the RS-232 Standard

  I already have a small, rahter experimental X10 installation (240V)
with some RF and a computer interface (CM12).
I have now installed hallway lighting consisting of 20 individual light
bulbs in a row (35 Watts each), currently controlled by one appliance

I have been trying to incorporate a
leviton occupancy light switch in combination with a standard thermostat to
control supplemental electric baseboard heaters in my basement. It looks
like the switches won't carry the load of heaters so I'll have to use relays

There's a huge price difference between American X10, and european sites...
I would like to find a cheap X10 source that can ship to Norway.
Thank you

Subject: Better Business Bureau report on Bass Home Electronics!!
From: "Frank Olson" Use-the-email-links@yoursecuritysource.com
Date: 11/17/2003 2:57 AM Eastern Standard Time
Message-id: <zb%tb.408149$6C4.286973@pd7tw1no>

Hello,
I know someone here is doing something similar (although I can't
remember whom) --
I'm in the process of automating my home and one of the 'clusters' I'm

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I have a small 3/2 1200 sq ft house built in 1987, one story, 2 1/2'
clearance crawl space under the house, tall attic.. I have a simple powered
subwoofer/2 satellite speaker system hooked to a computer in my office (3rd
bedroom). I like the sound quality of those speakers. My ...

I'm trying to set up a dawn simulator with a CM11 computer interface
and a LM12 lamp module (European units, lamp module is one-way unit),
and a MT10 timer. Similar setup is described on
http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~jimmc/dawnsim.html

We're moving to the country and although cable television is available in my area, it's not available at my property due to the very rocky terrain and that fact that it would be expensive to bury.  The cable company isn't ready to come to my property yet.
Anyway, I figure I'll be ...

I was planning on using a classic style 2-wire lamp switch for a new
patio light which happens to be the kind with a bulb that looks like a
pencil.  I figure if I never actually "dim" it, but just use on/off,
it should be OK, right?

I can't use x10 plc type switches. Anyone aware of any other kind of
remote controlled lights switches, either ir or rf or whatever?