Items Tagged With x10

X10 Irrigation Controller

Saturday, 19 June 2004

We've just received this from CyberSelect..."Thought your readers might like to know that we now have the Rain8 X10 irrigation controller (and software) available from stock. The Rain8 lets you control sprinklers with X10, just as if they were any other appliance. A complete irrigation schedule can be triggered by the reception of a single X10 command. The Rain8 can be configured by directly connecting it to a computer via a spare serial port...

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RF Kit for Pronto - Review

Saturday, 20 March 2004

Submission by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it - I have had a Philips Pronto for quite a long time now but it has not been the most popular control device in my house. It works well in integrating multiple IR remotes but it has not been very helpful in integrating with the rest of my HA system...

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Charmed Quark Software Releases CQC v1.1.3

Wednesday, 17 March 2004

Charmed Quark Software is proud to announce the 1.1.3 release of CQC (The Charmed Quark Controller), its Windows based, distributed control and automation software suite. CQC provides a secure, network distributed, highly integrated control and automation solution, including a powerful backend architecture, highly customizable front end, user based security, object oriented macro and driver development language with graphical IDE, and supports X-10, IR, socket, serial, and USB devices...

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X10 LD11 Photo Tutorial

Wednesday, 25 February 2004

Ken Watt has updated his website and re-published his tutorial on using the advanced features of an LD11 X10 module on a table lamp...

"First things first, take an LD11 (or LD10 I guess), a case for same and your lamp and get ready. You'll also need some flex probably as most lamp flexes are not long enough to allow good placement as well as fitting the inline module. Usually I'll take new flex from the socket to the case/LD11 and use the lamp flex up to teh lamp by just removing the plugtop"...

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HomeVision Central Heating

Thursday, 29 January 2004

The existing heating controller is a 3 channel affair - Upstairs, Downstairs and Hot water. We will only require an interface to channels 1 and 2 as our hot water is supplied from the stove and not the central heating boiler.

We are happy enough to use the existing thermostats - downstairs there are 6 zones of under-floor heating with a stat in each zone controlled by motorised valves on the manifold. Upstairs the radiators all have TRVs.

Although we are using a dedicated hardware controller (HomeVision - which has proved utterly reliable since it was installed in July 1997), we also wanted to leave the existing heating timer connected so it is possible to easily use it again if the need arises...

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