Homeowner Forum / Home Automation / April 2007

I currently have an X10 driveway motion sensor. It detects way too many
things, clouds, neighbors, birds...
I guess I need an positive beam breaking system. Anyone have one they like?
Thanks

Hi HomeAutomation
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Care to comment or discuss my latest progress?
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Does anyone know how these things work?  Smarthome has discontinued the
2382W but I have some 1135W switches I am trying to get to work with some
23885W relay switches.
I am trying to replace two manual 3-way switches controlling a couple of

I have just got the electricity connected to a new house.  There are three
bedroom circuits that code required to have arc fault breakers.  Those
circuits have x-10 sockets, dimmer switches, and flourescent-controlling
relay switches.

I am very interested to know if somebody has decoded the serial
protocols to start/stop a valve with the using the serial commands for
Hunter controllers
I was also planning myself to decode this to be able to send commands

Just curious: Does anyone make an LED lightbulb that has internal
circuits designed to work and play well with the typical X10 based
dimmer switch?

I recently added a SignaLinc Repeater 3-Wire Dryer which has greatly
improved X10 reliability in my home. But, none of the dims that I have
programmed in Active Home Pro ever activate. For example, a simple C1
dim to 50% (or any other %) just turns the lamp on.  Before adding the ...

I would like to know your opinion of the program MultiSet.
Hope it'll be useful for the users of this group.
Unattended Installation WindowsXP and Software.
I work as an administrator for the Dvina-Computers company

Kill A Watt EZ adds a cost calculator to the basic unit but, at $60, adds
more than it's worth to the price tag. It's a shame they didn't add an RS232
output.
http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/searchdetail.asp?productID=14691

I work for a historic lighthouse preservation society. Over the last
couple of years we've had more people break-in than usual. The
ranger's station is about 2 miles away so we rarely catch them in the
act. There is electricity at the lighthouse and we run a multi-camera

I've been sent here from alt.home.repair<g>
Is it possible for an X10 "control box" to show (say, with an LED maybe)
whether a remote device is on/off or has been sent the on/off signal?
I would like to control my water heater re-circulating pump (or garage

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  Does anyone try out this product, The Hot Water Lobster?  It doesn't
need the extra power which is good for my situation.  Here is their
website
http://www.hotwaterlobster.com/

Evening All,
Take a look at the Leviton 1755, Combination Switch that can handle
three items in one box.
http://www.leviton.com/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?a=b&item=3926

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