Anyone doing anything cool with this stuff?

Just a heads up that all Winplus gear at bunnings is $10
was at two different bunnings today and they both had it all marked down, must be clearing stuff out


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X10_(industry_standard)

X10 is an international and open industry standard for communication among electronic devices used for home automation, also known as domotics. It primarily uses power line wiring for signaling and control, where the signals involve brief radio frequency bursts representing digital information. A wireless radio based protocol transport is also defined.

X10 was developed in 1975 by Pico Electronics of Glenrothes, Scotland, in order to allow remote control of home devices and appliances. It was the first general purpose domotic network technology and remains the most widely available.[citation needed]

Although a number of higher bandwidth alternatives exist including KNX, INSTEON, BACnet, and LonWorks, X10 remains popular in the home environment with millions of units in use worldwide, and inexpensive availability of new components.

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last edited by Jim at 21:05:43 20/Jun/09

how much are they usually.

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a normal single unit usually costs anywhere from $50 - $80
but they also have the kits and what not, which are $80-$160+ (starter kits)

and cameras etc, everything is $10 - I'd say they're not stocking it anymore and just want to get rid of it

Buy some and gives us a review teq.

http://www.winplus.com.au/automated_entertainment.html

I bought a few things, I got an alarm clock that will turn on the heater in the bathroom when it wakes me up
so by the time I've hit snooze once or twice, I can walk straight into my bathroom at the right temp

not bad for 20 bucks imo

my friends who done it can turn all the lights/aircon units in his house on/off using his iphone from anywhere in the world
open/close his garage door etc (again, from anywhere)

i bought one of the big starter kits with plans to control it all from my iphone

just haven't had time to play with it yet :(

I'd like to open and start my car with my phone. Also if I could summon it via some sort of radio pilot thing that would seal the deal.

so by the time I've hit snooze once or twice, I can walk straight into my bathroom at the right temp

I've had this for years.

$30 Kambrook timer.
Clicks the coffee pot over so I wake up to the smell off coffee and in Winter (provided I remember to add coffee etc)

Other than that, it just controls the lights on my fish tank and when the lights are on, turns on the 8,000 litre per hour powerhead so my big fish can get some exercise.

I'd like to open and start my car with my phone. Also if I could summon it via some sort of radio pilot thing that would seal the deal.

Therm, start here

And here (click through)

my friends who done it can turn all the lights/aircon units in his house on/off using his iphone from anywhere in the world open/close his garage door etc (again, from anywhere)

Its pretty cool until you cant open the roller door because you I phone is flat and it is raining outside and the sprinklers a still on so you will get socked when you get out of the car. Then you get to the front door and cant remember the pin number to get in the house because you change it every two weeks. Then whilst breaking in the back window you cut yourself on some broken glass and set the alarm off which alerts the security company. The security person happens to be in the neighborhood. How long will it take to explain this to the police when they get there?

I looked at this s*** around 2000. I got a few catalogues but with a s*** pay and a rental I didn't buy anything. was keen on setting up a cctv setup with their products.

he still has the normal remote control for his garage, the other controller is an SMS based one

so he can send an SMS to a phone in his house and it tells the garage door to open/close

I've made a contextual sensor that works out if I wake up (as opposed to my wife) and if so it turns my computer on. She won't let me use it though, because she is worried that I could post naked pictures of her on the internet

Would the computer automatically zip it?

yeah I had a webcam setup with motion sensing back in the day, it used to send 3 - 5 stills of the footage it was capturing to an email/ftp server of my chosing

i had to put a beanie over it when my gf came to visit

I've made a contextual sensor that works out if I wake up (as opposed to my wife) and if so it turns my computer on. She won't let me use it though, because she is worried that I could post naked pictures of her on the internet

Tell her someone has to populate the internet - or what are the rest of us supposed to look at?

Edit: Wow. I out-creeped myself, that post...

I've made a contextual sensor that works out if I wake up (as opposed to my wife) and if so it turns my computer on. She won't let me use it though, because she is worried that I could post naked pictures of her on the internet

impressive

did you code it for work or up it for gnu peeps?

I used to sell these at my old work.

That's a nice bargain, mite go check em out.



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