From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2006-10-26T00:23:39+09:00
Subject: Re: x10 and ruby?

On 10/25/06, Ian Morrison <ian@darq.com> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i'm interested in using x10 and a home automation project to play around
> with ruby.  i see that a couple of years ago there was talk on this list
> about that, and before that hal fulton had some experimental code to
> talk to a cm11a controller.  i found the cm17a firecracker module, but
> that's a very primitive subset in x10 - i'm more interested in having
> sensors around the house that run ruby methods in response to events.
> is this something that anyone here has experimented with?  aside from
> the firecracker module which is very minimal, i've not found anything
> that i could hook up to a cm12a (i'm in the UK) to take a picture when
> someone climbs in through the window.
>
> any pointers would be appreciated,

I'm pretty sure that the cm12x is the same as the cm11a except for
voltage and plug type, i.e. it has the same computer interface
protocol.

I'm mildly interested in the same question about X10 support in Ruby.
I currently use Misterhouse for some primitive HA, but it's a big
honking lump of perl code which I haven't looked at since I installed
it several years ago.

A ruby based replacement for Misterhouse could be sweet, although I'm
not sure I want to spend much time getting such a thing started.

-- 
Rick DeNatale

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