Automation Adventures

A nice weekend home automation project: the Emergency Party Button.
The Emergency Party Button turns an ordinary apartment into a full-blown disco, complete with laser, black lights and fog machine. The guts of the whole system is the X10 protocol, that is used to send a signal from the Big Red Button to a transceiver module, [...]

Ron Klinkien has set up a Wiki called MisterHouse from Scratch, where he describes his experiences with setting up the Home Automation software MisterHouse.
He describes all the steps he had to take, the tips and tricks he learned along the way, and a lot of under-the-hood details on how to configure Linux, MisterHouse and several [...]

Isn’t a holiday weekend great? I finally had some time to sit down and see what happens with all those triggers and programs that I wrote. After all, I still had the problem that sometimes the lamp in the living room would react to X10 signals, and sometimes it wouldn’t. And this seemed to be [...]

Well, after some deliberation I decided to keep a log (more precise a blog) of the adventures in X10 automation. This log is started after I’ve been fiddling around with X10 automation for a while, so in brief the setup that I have:

CM-11A controller
4 Lamp modules (2 X10’s and 2 LampLinc PLC’s)
2 Appliance modules (both [...]