Homeowner Forum / Home Automation / April 2004

I am building a new house and I want to have the ability to upgrade my home
video audio options.  My builder only offers CAT 5e and Quad RG-6 cabling
wiring options.  I am a little confused on what all can be wired up to CAT
5.  I always thought of CAT 5 as a way to network ...

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Hi,
I noticed something that seems a little strange with the behavior of
my TM751.  I have a halogen lamp which comes with a dimmer slide.  The
lamp is plugged into the dimmer, which is plugged into my TM751.  This

I want to put a Cat5E low volatage phone line in a box about 2 inches or so
from a high
voltage duplex plug box in a kitchen.  Is there a problem with this?  Is
there a certain distance that they have to be separated?

I'm proposing to move all my computers (they seem to breed) into a
cupboard.   The power consumption, hence heat generated, will vary
greatly according to usage.  So I need a scheme to keep the cupboard
cool.   For safety reasons I'd like this to be independent of any other

I'm looking at using the Radio Shack 900MHz Intercom system to broadcast
audio announcements from my PC to the rest of the house. These units have a
VOX input, and what I'd like to know is when the VOX input is used, is the
audio signal picked up by all intercom units, regardless of ...

I am completely new to this home automation thing.  I have a pretty
small apartment, with very little overhead lighting.  I bought a
couple of things from x10 in order to control lamps that are plugged
into the wall.  Now I want to automate everything.  I have run into

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I have a lamp module that has been working in one outlet for the last
year.  Yesterday it stopped responding to signals - but ONLY in that
outlet.  I moved the module and lamp to another outlet and it works
fine.  None of my other modules work in the first outlet either.  I've

Can someone please point me in the direction of a switchable speaker unit
able to take a couple of inputs and output up to 6 separate 8 ohm pairs
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Any words of wisdom in hooking up the TXB-16 X10 HVAC SYSTEM?  Thanks in
advance for your input.

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Relatively new to X10; bought the X10 package with the CM11, then 'upgraded'
to the Powerlin 1132CU, with Samrthome Manager.
Found that the sunrise/sunset times weren't in cahootz with the real world,
and that the Daylight Savings Time checkbox had no effect at all.

I recently changed the batteries in my 8 in 1 from Marmitek and have since
no been able to get it to do anything but x10.  I have all the codes written
down so it should be a simple re-enter but nothing seems to work.  I've
checked the IR LED which seems to be working but am at a ...