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Submission by Kevin Hawkins - OK - another update. This is of the Rabbit development system with the following piggyback boards installed - a Rabbit 3200 core attached lower left corner, plus the C Bus SIM upper centre (blue board) and a 4 line graphic lcd display with keypad and LED's. The power supply connector is upper right corner and the blue Ethernet cable emerges centre left. The two wires (white and blue) are the C-Bus connection...

Submission by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it - For a while I've been looking at how to get Caller ID info into a PC. So many modems appear to offer it but every one I could get my hands on doesn't actually support UK Caller ID. The options seemed to be buy a new analogue modem known to work or buy a dedicated unit (like a Meteor) - Both of which seemed overkill and likely to cost over £70/£80 for a decent modem and well over that for a Meteor. Then Jon Payne posted to the UKHA_D mailing list details of a circuit he'd designed which took the raw output from the CID decoder chip on a BT CID unit and converted it to RS232, ready for a PC...

Having obtained a number of Mini Timers from Homebase for £2.99 each, the first thing I needed to do was remove the electronics from the nicely styled case. Turning the case over I saw two screws at the back. There are in fact four screws to be removed, the other two are at the front under the rubber feet...

James Hoye has just left after a hectic week of HA projects. In the first of several updates to this diary section, here are some pictures of the upgrade to my TiVos hard drive and the fitting of the TurboNET network card...

"Now you can control all your home equipments from anywhere in the world, using a simple web browser ! All you need is an infrared LED, a resistor, 2 diodes, a DB9-F connector and this application! The new version of the Infrared Remote Manager (1.2a) can be downloaded for free"...