RE: [TCLUG:7329] X10 offer

["Lawrence Crisp" <Lawrence.L.Crisp-1@tc.umn.edu>]

I've bought a bunch of stuff from them, including their ActiveHome kit.  
I have the lights at my desk and all the stuff in my bedroom plugged into 
modules.  In the morning, I have macros set up that bring on the lights, 
radio, etc on and swaps them around just in time for the traffic and 
weather reports, and then goes back to the radio.
After getting tired of family members startling me while I'm at my desk, I 
also set up a motion sensor (from x10) at the top of the stairs to turn on 
a spinning light above my desk.  It works pretty well.

And I will probably be getting more stuff soon....


  --Larry




On Tue, 03 Aug 1999 22:27:25 -0500,
tclug-list@mn-linux.org wrote...
>
>Did anyone go for this deal awhile back? I did, and I think it's pretty 
>cool to
>be able to turn a lamp and the TV on and off with either a remote control 
>or
>from the command line. :) 
>
>I know I really can't afford to be buying modules at $10 a pop, but it's 
>neat
>stuff. If you're using this extensively I'd like to hear what you're doing 
>with
>it. Anyone get any of those graphical frontends to Bottlerocket or other 
>X10
>software? The Qt one required Qt 2.0 (don't have it) and the GTK one I 
>compiled
>crashed when you turned on a device--and made the mouse really choppy 
>(probably
>an issue with reading/writing to ttyS0). 
>
>Cheers,
>Joel
>
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