Homeowner Forum / Home Automation / May 2004

Does anyone know of an analog humidity sensor that I can use for an anlog
input bord (kinda like a LM34 tempature sensor) that has less than 5v
output?
Thanks,

I live in an apartment and have a room A/C unit in my LR and another
in the BR.  I'd like to be able to have the units turn on/off at
certain temps--but only during certain times of day.
I'm TOTALLY green when it comes to HA--I've NEVER done anything with

Can someone recommend on X10 based home security system?
Thanks
mike

Looking for freeware (unfortunately out of $$$$) to contol X10 system from
laptop with Firecracker module.
I'm looking for something like Visual Home Commander - but freeware.
Housebot is neat - but I believe only works with wired serial interface.

I am looking for a 110v switch controlled either by RS232 or USB. The
purpose is to cycle power to my router and DSL modem. I have written some
mailing list software which works real well. Unfortunately my DSL connection
must be reset on occasion, and during that time my lists are ...

We've recently bought a house, stripped it and we're just about to
start building it up again.
We'd like to wire the house correctly, so we can turn it into a smart
house.

Trying to find a net vender that sells SVHS & RCA  Keystone inserts for use
with UTP network cable. Any recommendations?  Thanks

I have read a lot about microsoft's simple communication protocol,
but all articles are older than one year.
In these articles they mention that scp will become a new standard
within the next years.

Does anyone have advice on accomplishing this?  There is a situation
where an outside office addition was built next to a home, with
conduit provided for cable runs.  They could either 1. "star" wire
each coax/cat 5 drop in the office along with the rest of the premise

ConEd has a program here in Brooklyn where they give people with central
air a thermostat (plus $25 credit). This thermostat can be controlled over
the Internet, plus they have control and can raise the temperature a couple
degrees in the summer if there is too much demand for ...

The recent Worthington catalog has prices for the PCS UPB switches.
The cheapest switch is $100 and the computer interface is $175.
I think X-10's market is safe for a bit longer.

My son is paralyzed from the neck down. We are about to upgrade his
broken home control system.
Jeff will operate the new system from his wheelchair by voice (wireless
microphone) and using his on-chair laptop, via the home control

Here's the scoop.
I am running Windows XP Pro.  Someone just sold me a Geovision card,
which for some reason appears in the Device Manager as a GV700?
I was getting some weird error about not finding "keypro"???

If interested check out
http://www.geocities.com/manic_marv/
I have written replacement s/w for the internal PIC of the Cm11a.
It emulates all functions of the original plus 3 new functions.

   Since this is the only group that I found google archives of weather
station computer related posts, I hope you won't mind if I ask a few
questions in hope that someone here will have the information I am looking
for.