[HH] Home remote control - not exactly hardware hacking.

[Kurt Keville]

You can look at some HomePNA rated gear... http://www.homepna.org/ 
... EoP (ethernet-over-power)....

I have a chum who got this working, or something similar, by coopting 
the building cable TV wiring (ostensibly RG-58) and using it for 
10Base2 Thinnetworking... I will see if I can dig up his HOWTO...

At 11:17 AM 12/5/2011, Jack Coats wrote:
>X10 communicates over the electrical wires.  So if you have 220V to
>the normal 110V USA house,
>it may only communicate over half the outlets (one side of the 220V).
>You can get over that if you
>install a 'bridge', but that is something else to put in.
>
>As designed X10 is one way communication.  It also is inherently
>un-reliable and the ones I have
>used 'fail on' after a power outage.  Some X10 controllers re-publish
>the settings on occasion
>(once a minute more or less) but not all.  So if you have a power
>failure, you may come back
>to find all the X10's on.  Because of the un-reliable power where I
>live (sticks of TN) they are not
>a good choice.
>
>There is a device that allows Linux or Windows to talk X10, but I
>don't think it will receive.
>
>X10 was initially designed to be one way communication, so it doesn't
>do 2 way well.  Basically to
>do lights on/off/dim kinds of things.  Appliance modules were on/off,
>dimmers were for incandescent
>lights mainly (not fluorescent) and the dimmers often provided a
>chopped wave so it was
>electrically noisy.
>
>X10.com will sell you just about anything X10 (and more).  Most of the
>stuff works as described,
>but don't over-read what you would like it to do... it probably won't.
>  If you search hard, I think
>there is a fair explanation of X10 (at least there was a few years
>ago, if I remember right).
>
>The x10grench... Jack
>
>(There are some 10mbit ethernet over power devices and nic's out
>there.  They may still need
>a bridge to another phase of power, but they tend to work fairly well.
>  They might be worth
>investigating depending on what you want to do.)
>
>On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> > Years ago I looked into X10 et. al. and decided it was not worth it at the
> > time. What I am looking for is a couple of wireless outlets so I 
> can program
> > a couple of lamps that are currently running on manual timers.
> > I've looked at Insteon, and a couple of places. What I want to do is to
> > control a lamp (and later a thermostat) from Linux or Android via 
> WiFi. (X10
> > used to use wireless via home electrical wiring).
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jerry Feldman<gaf at blu.org>
> > Boston Linux and Unix
> > PGP key id:3BC1EB90
> > PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66  C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
> >
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