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X10 Home Automation, Socket Rocket LM15 & CFLs
This seems like a good a place to ask about x10 kit since it is a lot more common in the USA than UK. I bought some X10EBa (UK bayonet) Socket Rockets for a friend to allow easy control of house...
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replacement CM11a firmware available
I have made available on source for replacement firmware for the CM11a along with a unix daemon that provides my standard tcp/ip interface. The replacement firmware is in no way compatible with the...
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Using X-10 AM486 Outdoors?
I am using an AM486 appliance module to control my wife's holiday lights. The outlet into which the lights are plugged is outdoors but located in a well protected area on our covered porch. My problem...
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Does the Kodak PULSE digital frame w1030s or w1030 work with private RSS feeds.
All, Having followed up other advice on this group I had a look at the Kodak PULSE digital frame w1030S 10in. Overall it looks very promising. However the on-line documentation is an utter joke in...
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Monitoring Solar PV installation
We have just had a solar PV system installed - the worst time of the year for the UK I am looking to monitor generated power and currently consumed power by use of Hall effect transducers. In the...
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Photo frame recommendations
Try to find one in the stores. Eeverytime I see one for the last two years they are tgone when I come back. I bought a Sony frame and they are Wi-Fi but mostly depnedant on internal memory, another...
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Stanley Homelink Garage Door Status Indicator instructions
Mike, This may or may not help - it's something I posted to CHA a few years back. If it doesn't help, I _may_ have a copy of the original instructions stowed somewhere. Most of these had very poor RF...
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Nightly noise interference
I have had X10 installed in my house for years. Within the past couple weeks, I started noticing that at night, a lot of my X10 stuff wasn't working. I've done some investigation with my ESM-1 meter...
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Insteon unreliability with simultaneous switch presses
I have my house wired up with Insteon. In several places I have two switches next to each other that are also linked to other switches. If you press both switches at the same time then the signals are...
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X10 device to detect open circuit or voltage drop
Which X10 device would be used to detect a low voltage drop, or open circuit ? It seems that the powerflash does the reverse. Thanks
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Processing Solution for Credit Cards, Payroll, Marketing, and Websites.
Solutions including merchant credit card processing, payroll and human resources, capital advances, direct marketing, online marketing, social media marketing, mobile marketing, website development,...
 
Firecracker and USB-Serial
In trying to get this combination to work on my Mac with heyu, I've discovered that DTR is never going high. With a 'scope, I can see the "1" signal on RTS pulsing merrily, but the "0" signal on DTR...
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R.I.P. Robert L. Bass
Sadly, Robert passed away this past Sunday. Rest in peace Robert.
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Motion Sensor Light for Front Entrance
[snip] CFL don't pass that trickle X10 RECEPTICLE modules don't have the current sense "feature" but for some strange reason still have the trickle current. A CFL won't be completely off unless you...
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Insteon and other X10 alternatives?
I had an X10 set-up in a condo that I just moved out of. I'm now in a house, and was thinking of doing an Insteon set-up. To my surprise, when I search for the term "Insteon" in this group, there are...
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