Homeowner Forum / Home Automation / December 2005

I looking for a good proven X10 cross over with repeater/amplier, than makes
connection across both phases.
Any experiences and recommendations? Looking for something to install in
main house circuit breaker box.

In the interest of power conservation, I used 3 strings of multicolored
LED light bulbs in my christmas tree this year.  I also used the same
AM486 2 pin Appliance Module to turn these tree lights ON and OFF as I
have in the past. I can hear the relay energizing and deenergising ...

Fox news ran a 2-1/2 minute (for news that's pretty long) segment on
Z-Wave home automation today.  They talked about the vast number of
manufacturers that are getting on the Z-Wave bandwagon.  No mention
was made of HomeSeer, though they did demonstrate an ELK-M1 Gold

I have a client that wants to run a wireless WiFi security camera so
that the image can be viewed from any web browser anywhere in the
world.  No problem.
But he also wants to be able to put that same image onto the cable TV

Hi, guys,
I gave up on CM15a and bought a Smarthome PowerLinc Controller and I'm about
to start writing macros on it.
However, for the switches, the software allows dimming only on the Smarthome

Hi there.  I've been having ongoing noise issues with my new
apartment and our lights go on and off at random.  After
testing for three months and trying several different noise
filters, I don't yet have the results I need.  Time to ask

Does anyone have an good info on Powerline communication?
I'm looking for schematics and stuff, info on how to build communication
units...
anyone?

I couldn't find the thread where we were discussing how to interface your
PLC designs to the powerline so I'll post this and hope it catches your
attention.
I just referred someone else to an application note on the Philips TDA5051A

I would like to build home automation system in which I can control the
boiler switch from the internet.
I could not find the information which pc controller should I buy.
Will this do the trick

While looking for ways to extend the signal range, I came across a
circa 2003 post in which Dave Houston refers to adding a wideband RF
preamp to get up to a 200' range.
There was a link included in that post, but it is now dead.  Would

Would anybody know what the carrier frequency the Checkmate IV (model
#: RT-U49C) remote uses? I think they are manufactured by a company
called Contec.
Would it be around 40khz or so? Is there any online resource that would

What I really need is just the bladders and the pump. I'd like to have
Homeseer control the action through my Ocelot/SECU16.
Is the inflatable kind any more affordable than the power dampers? Trying to
retrofit a power damper into my ducts is going to be terribly difficult.

SmartHomeLive.
Do you know anything about this? I love some X10 cams which I'm not using...
Thanks for any help.
Flavio

Can anyone tell me how to identify a valid HA enabled eprom for a NAPCO
9600 panel?  The one that came in my panel was a version 30b.  Another
one that I acquired that is supposed to be HA enabled is marked as a
version 40b, and has a U marked above it.  I thought I read someplace

"Winfixer" has now been identified as a security risk.
(http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/winfixer.html)
The software to install this program comes up as a pop-up/pop-under at
websites that utilize "kounter.com".  It's a wicked little sucker in