home automation
posted by CodeGirl
I have a decent sized setup of X10 devices around the house. It all started with the desire to have the light out front on when I got home from work. I had experience with X10 already, as my dad had used it for years to turn lights on and off at dusk and dawn, and to control the xmas lights around the house (old style Radio shack modules).
I changed out the wall switch with this. That was about it. I used HeyU to upload a macro to the CM11A with instructions to turn the light on at dawn and off at ‘bedtime’. As of right now I have 2 wall switch modules, three lamp modules, 2 appliance modules, a wireless wall switch and a few motion sensors.
I have lights on the outside and the inside of the house turn on at dusk/off at dawn [ determined by heyU, based on my lat/long]. When I really should be getting to bed, one of the living room lights turns off and the other dims down to give me just enough light to see so that I wont trip over something. That’s my cue. I ignore it half the time and use a little web interface [to heyu] that I wrote to brighten the light enough so I can still see the keyboard on my laptop :-D
I also have an XCam2, with a receiver that is connected to a linux server. I’m thinking of setting this up so that the front motion sensor being triggered will make the server turn on the xcam and record until motion is no longer sensed.
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