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From: bakul@amdcad.AMD.COM (Bakul Shah)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Leviton X10 products
Summary: unix program for x10
Message-ID: <20093@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 22 Jan 88 20:15:25 GMT
References: <183@conexch.UUCP> <389@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM>
Reply-To: bakul@amdcad.UUCP (Bakul Shah)
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In article <389@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> faunt@spar.UUCP (Doug Faunt) writes:
>There was mention of a Unix program to control a "Powerhouse" unit.
>Does anyone have a more complete pointer to that?

I have a simple program for this.  It provides a command line interface
to most of the powerhouse functions.  Example:

	x10 setevent 0 normal mon-sun 8 30 1,5-7 on
	x10 setevent 1 normal mon-sun 9 00 1,5-7 off

will turn modules 1, 5, 6, 7 on at 8:30 and off at 9:00 AM everyday.
You can also write a script of x10 commands to be called by, say,
cron.

BTW, the powerhouse unit keeps pretty good time and I use it to keep
my Fortune 32:16 from running ahead of time.  I have another little
program for this since Powerhouse doesn't speak seconds and you have
watch for the exact time when the minute ticks over.

Email to my address below if you are interested.
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Bakul Shah,	 ..!{ucbvax,decwrl,sun}!amdcad!light!bvs