home automation question

[Marc Volovic]

AVR is fine. So is a second hand wrap or alix.
More expensive than X10 :-) mind you.
However, X-10 is a very unreliable protocol, you're better off toggling a GPIO line which, in turn, toggles on ptocoupler...
eBay _is_ your friend.
m

On Apr 21, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Erez D wrote:

> hi guys.
> 
> i have a warehouse. it has two connections to the buildings - power and ethernet.
> 
> i want to control the warehouse external lights from the house.
> 
> I thought of buying an X10 light switch, but it seems that each consts around 50$, which is expensive
> so my other option is a computer i can control (prefferably a linux box, somthing like nslu2).
> 
> so:
> 1. anybody knows of a cheap place to buy X10 stuff (or somthing similiar) ?
> 2. what is the cheepest "computer" (doesn't have to be a full computer, an avr with ethernet and gpio will do) ?
> 
> thanks.
> erez.
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