Diary

After upgrading my main PC’s motherboard I at last had 2 serial ports free (the new board has a PS2 type mouse connector). This meant…

The weekend of January 9th 1998 and Keith Doxey (aka Krazy Keith) flies into Northern Ireland to meet me for what might perhaps be the…

  I have now added a page with illustrations of the HomeVision. These pictures have been pulled from the CSI site in the mean time….

The HomeVision is now up and running! It is getting me up in the morning, controlling my AV system, reminding me when my favourite TV…

I received my new (second) HomeVision yesterday. Craig has now received the old unit back and after running his diagnostics apparently “The power supply reset…

The HomeVision unit I received this week developed a fault after running for approximately 10 minutes. I phoned Craig at CSI and left a message…

After contacting Custom Solutions Inc in Florida I discovered they were just finalising a “UK beta” version of their HomeVision controller. It’s a beta because…

A short time ago I installed a WinTV/PCI card from Hauppauge. This week I finally got round to cabling the UHF into the computer room…

Although not X10 connected I though I’d put this one here anyway. I’ve now added a small video camera in the baby’s room… I’ve mounted…

I went to Maplins at the weekend and got an American Line Socket (Maplins part no HL19V £0.99) so I can connect my TW523 to…

OK…my TW523 two way power line interface arrived in the post this morning. This now allows me to connect my PC to the mains via…

OK…here’s the latest. I have a couple more bits now including an Appliance Module. So now we can turn on/off the baby walkie talkie transmitter…

I had been trying for a long time to find a source for UK compatible X10 units. Suppliers that had previously sold them had stopped…