[Ti] Home automation

[Dick Grable]

Xtension does support the 290 but it's an older version that might not be
available on the Shed site. The bottom line is if you have something that
works don't try to fix it until you have to.


On 5/30/04 7:23 AM, "John Griffin" <jwegriffin at mac.com> wrote:

> Dick Grable typed this message on 5/30/04 12:00 AM:
> 
>> Have to ask what automation program you are running? xTension is used here
>> and it works great under Classic. The only concession was that the serial
>> ports did not work. I finally went back to booting into OS9 as I didn't want
>> to dedicate an OS 10 machine to the routing task of turning on and off the
>> lights.
> 
> I looked into XTension, but it doesn't support the X-10 290 Computer
> interface unit. I have been using MouseHouse software from long ago. The
> reason for this is a) it supports the 290 (which connects to my computer via
> a Keyspan USB -> Serial box) and b) I have several very complex programs
> written for MouseHouse that took me ages to perfect to my satisfaction and
> there appears to be no way of importing these programs into Xtension.
>