Hi Tom-- What I'm saying is that X10 is NOT a viable system! I played with the early versions of it in high school during the early 60s when it was hot stuff. I recommend only an ordinary LAN system that you connect your computers together and share the internet over. Your existing sensors (WITHOUT the X10 parts) can be connected to various over the counter LAN/ethernet/TCP-IP boxes that then interface them to the LAN. Your existing web browser and choice of canned software then lets you monitor and/or control the whole mess over the internet, or just locally, however you chose.
X10 can certainly be made to work, but it can rarely be made reliable. The best I can suggest is to always keep it on the same circuit in the house. That is, make sure that all of the outlets (for X10 appliances that talk to each other) connect to the same fuse or circuit breaker in your electrical box. That will solve some problems sometimes. I am sure that if you go to YahooGroups homepage and search on X10 that you can come up with some helpful resources in there somewhere. Roger On 3/30/07, Thomas Hillson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Roger, I know they work for other people, but they do not work for me and the X-10 support did not help me figure out more than I had a problem. How about giving the other readers of OGD some specific examples of how you are monitoring and controlling things using your X-10 setup. If anyone else has any examples of how they are using X-10 to control things in their greenhouse, chime in. Tom Hillson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mar 30, 2007, at 7:30 AM, Roger, in Bangkok wrote: Hi Thomas-- X10 is an ancient protocol, even predating the internet!! By far the best way to monitor and control things is through is a simple LAN system. Your existing sensors are perfectly usable and you have the benefit of internet interface and control if you want it ... eg a temperature sensor (or whatever) is out of the range you preset, so the system sends you an email, maybe turns on a video server camera, or automatically starts a ventilator ... basically whatever you tell it to do. This is the way industrial control systems are put together ... never with X10 :-) This link oi-cellennium-thailand.telemetryview.com/thcell4 is to a page that provides monitoring of a solar power system that I'm currently in the commissioning process for. A much more basic example. Regards/Roger, in Bangkok
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