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- From: ken@spectacle.berkeley.edu (Ken Huie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Looking for X10 controller interface
- Message-ID: <ken-100992111709@min1mac14.berkeley.edu>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 18:29:17 GMT
- References: <1992Sep10.145041.11680@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Sep10.145041.11680@cbfsb.cb.att.com>,
- mstov@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (michael.p.stovsky) wrote:
- >Does anyone know of a Mac interface to X10 home control stuff? I would like
- >to play around with controlling devices from my Mac and would like to find an
- >X10 interface box that can be connected to the serial port or a nubus slot.
-
- DAK used to sell one (I have one). I don't know if they still sell the Mac
- cable needed (It was a DIN to DB-9). The box uses a serial line at 600!!!
- baud to talk to the computer. The protocols to talk to the interface
- are a bit weird (lots of repeating Hex nums) and are described in the docs
- with the box. The interface has a battery backed-up memory to send commands
- to controllers/dimmers, etc at times specified. You can use it to switch
- things in real time also.
-
- The software to control the interface gets updated every few years and is
- posted on Compu$serve and GEnie in the home control sections (?).
- I only use the software once a year (or thereabouts) to change my home
- security lighting schedule.
-
- Sorry for the vague answers, but the docs for mine are buried in a closet
- somewhere at home. If you need more, email me, I'll dig 'em out.
-
- ken@spectacle.berkeley.edu
-