Homeowner Forum / Home Automation / April 2004

I am doing a remodel and my wife decided that she wants the phone jack in a
different spot in the kitchen after drywall is up and most cabinets are in!
I was able to fish the Cat 5E cable out to where I can rerun it I think!
What I need to know may seem like a silly question, but ...

I purchased a Rain8 home sprinker controller from Smarthome.com.
Included in the bundle was a Powerlinc ii Serial adapter and several
cables.  There are NO instructions on how the 2 actually work
together.  I can figure out the Rain8 (which is cool, by the way).

I have some "rock" speakers I'm setting up out by the pool (woofer and
tweeter in fake rocks) with about 150' of 12 ga stranded connecting each
to a Niles passive speaker selector which in turn is connected to the
'B' speaker terminals on my Denon receiver.

I am wanting to in stall an electric meter into part of the house electrics.
The reason being that I am thinking of renting out part of it and would like
something to calculate how much electric they have used. Something similar
to the main meter in most house so you can read the ...

I was completely intriguied when I happened to stumble across a great
site. The site is http://www.stgeorges.myvnc.com
They offer FREE (Yes, Completely Free) 60MB Email Services, free
calendaring, address book, tasks, and notes. And you know what is

I am in the process of building a house and I have purchased the
following:
1) 5 pairs of audiosource 60w speakers
2) 1 pair of audiosource 50w outdoor speakers

I'm looking for a security camera that I can mount in my doorway and which I
can watch on either (or both) my computer and TV.
Can anyone give me personal recommendations?
Peter

Sorry - newbie question follows:
I am installing some CAT5 cable around the house to network up the various
family p.c.s. At the same time, I am proposing to link all the TVs in the
house to my DVD player and digital TV box using coax.

** I apologize if this is not the correct group to address this
question to... If there is a better suggestion please let me know...
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I'm curious if anyone has experience w/ the D-Link DSM-320 wireless

Hi, I am trying to find a RF remote that I can use with my computer
(for things like Winamp, Media player, and a few other programs).  I
have found a few RF remotes for audio/video systems and a few IR for
computer systems but have had a really hard time finding a RF for

I'm trying to use an X-10 minicontroller to trigger macros in a home
automation program.
I've found the behavior to be a little flakey and I was wondering if
anyone else has seen anything like this.

I was wondering if anyone knows of simple Windows (XP preferably) software
to control a CM11a that will allow sending of housecode - unit code pairs
without the on/off command (i.e. to be used for programming devices like
the keypadlinc series of controllers). I used to do this ...

A customer of mine has all of their CAT5 phone wires POTS terminated into a
IBM Home Director. I need to add an additional phone line but the module
that they all plug into an IBM 7548 does not want to pass line two through.
Is this the wrong module or am I missing something?

Seems a good entry-level starter package on X10.com - link below.
I'm looking just for something to get started with and start playing - is
this a good place to start ?
I think I've read posts about X10 going out of business - is it safe/advised

I live in an area of the SW that has a ghost radio station as we call it.
They give their call sign 2x an hour and play music the rest of the time.
This is music I have not heard for sometimes 20 years. They play "B" sides
and songs by artists that I have never heard.