The X-10 Macintosh Software

For a $49.95 product, the CP290 software is pretty neat. You can design a layout of your home, and then place icons representing your home appliances on the layout. You can even design your own icons if you want. Here's an example layout with appliance icons: 

Double clicking on the Living Room Lamp icon lets you edit the events for that appliance. With a lamp, you can send an on, off, or dim command. In the case below, I'm having a dim event occur ever y day of the week at 10:39 PM. The living room lamp should go down to around 50% power at that time, based on the setting of the scroll bar. 

When you're done editing the event log you can ask the software to plot out when the events are scheduled to occur:

This display is the result:

Finally, when all the editing is done, you you can save the schedule to your CP290 unit.