by Tom Pydeski (16 Submissions)
Category: Complete Applications
Difficulty: Intermediate
Date Added: Wed 3rd February 2021
Rating: 
(4 Votes)
X10 put out some nifty home control products that communicate
over the power lines and respond to commands to turn on; turn off; dim; etc.
The CM11A is device that interfaces a pc to the command line protocol and also
contains timers and macros.
This project is a class I wrote to emulate what the keware ocx does.
Keware (https://www.homeseer.com/downloads/index.htm)
It can control devices in any housecode from your pc. It also monitors devices that are turned on or off from a remote or firecracker interface and raises events when this happens.
The HouseCode can be any 1 of 16 (A through P) and each house code can handle
any of 16 devices (1 to 16).
I started out with the firecracker class I wrote
https://www.vbcoders.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=64719&lngWId=1
and I experimented with it and took information from the x10 protocol file
I made some switches and used a vertical progress bar to set the dim level.
I implemented a device status for each device. Finally, I was able to implement
the all on and all off commands.
Of course all of this is useless if you don't have the x10 hardware that it
Assumes
You must have the x10 CM11a pc interface and some x10 modules.
Download X10CM11AClass (68 KB)
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