IBM Developer Works: Home automation using X10 | Linux Today

IBM Developer Works: Home automation using X10

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 30, 2006

“One of the dreams of the ’80s was that one day, around the time
everyone had rocket cars, computers would control everything in
your house; lighting, for instance. We don’t have rocket cars, but
the X10 protocol allows you to turn things on and off remotely.

“In this article, Peter Seebach shows how to set up and drive
X10 devices using off-the-shelf hardware and a couple of hundred
lines of simple code…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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