Homeowner Forum / Home Automation / May 2004

So I'm trying to connect the phone service in my new house.  I bought the
leviton 66 block.  All cat5 phone lines are run to a central location...I
have 2 pr phone wire coming in the wall from the Phone utility box outside
my house.....To eliminate possibilites I've pig tailed one ...

Does anyone have experience with surveillance camera wiring over cat5?
I have been hearing alot of great things about using video baluns and
cat5 instead of caox. If anyone can recommend some high quality baluns
for a good price it would be greatly appreciated.

I want to put a standard PIC into an appliance or lamp module
for a custom X-10 interface.  I see projects to retrofit the
PIC of a RR501 and maybe a CM11A, but not the modules.
Are the power supplies of the RR501 and CM11A 5V?  The lamp and

   I am planning out a custom home I'm going to have built soon and I had a
couple questions. I am planning to do a open air mic setup with HAL200,
similar to http://james.lipsit.com/whole.htm. I have the mic's picked out
(PZM-11's), but I don't know what type of speakers to use. ...

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We are familiar of the Internet as composed of text and images and a
lot of animated graphics. The next logical step is the rich media

I have not found a light sensor that works with my X10 devices. I have seen
the photoelectric control module, but I do not want the switches. I simply
want a device that will sense light (with an adjustment for tolerance) that
will send a signal to my X10 devices.

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Charmed Quark Software (www.charmedquark.com) is proud to announce the 1.2
release of CQC (The Charmed Quark Controller), its Windows based,
distributed control and automation software suite. CQC provides a secure,
network distributed, highly integrated, control and automation ...

I just got a package of the fairly new EZ RJ-45 plugs and the tool for
them. For those who haven't heard of these, they are your basic RJ-45
plugs with a simple but wonderful innovation. The wires go all the way
through the plug and come out of a slot on the tip.  This makes

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Home-Automation
A HA related groups started on the new Google Groups 2. Open to everyone.

I am in the early planning stages of a home automation system that I
plan to build out in stages. One of the earlier stages would be an audio
distribution system. I am eying the Russound CAV6.6 because it has a
serial interface (so I can control it from whatever HA central ...

I want to control some of my x10 lights from my computer.  I have very
simple requirements (as of now).  I need to have lights turn on and
off on Fridays and Saturdays (preferably based on sunrise and sunset
times).  I would also prefer if the interface could operate when it is

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I own a Freightliner tractor-trailer with 4 heavy-duty 12V batteries
in parallel powering about 1300 watts out of 3 inverters to run mostly
120V appliances and a laptop.
Would like to install a serious sound system and control all

I'm a retired programmer and I want some library (preferably free) for
integration x10 / CM11A controller with my C++ program. The end result is
that I want to control some light controller from my PC running WIndows XP.
Can someone advise?