[ale] BottleRocket

[Michael A. Smith]

Just a link to those of you who are having problems with X10.

Check out this link:
http://www.x10.com/support/x10trou.htm

I have the phase coupling problem in my house and guess which room the
problem occurs in.......my computer room.

I guess I will need the capacitor.........

-----Original Message-----
 From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Patrick
Ramsey
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 3:26 PM
To: matthew.brown at cordata.net; dhamm at itrepro.com; jimpop at rocketship.com;
cfowler at zfh-csg.penguinpowered.com
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: Re: [ale] BottleRocket


Firecracker is a package by X10 (Home Control)

IT contains a serial adaptor (control) and a couple'a remote units that plug
into the wall.  It also comes with a remote.

The goal here is to use the house's prexisting wiring, to control appliances
and various other elextrical devices.

(each device has to go through the remote unit for its power source)

-Patrick

>>> "Matthew Brown" <matthew.brown at cordata.net> 07/15/99 02:31PM >>>
Could someone tell briefly what BottleRocket and FireCracker do?

-Matthew
----- Original Message -----
 From: David Hamm <dhamm at itrepro.com>
To: <cfowler at zfh-csg.penguinpowered.com>; <jimpop at rocketship.com>
Cc: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 1:46 PM
Subject: RE: Re: [ale] BottleRocket


> I got bottlerocket and it worked first try.  I did use /dev/ttyS1 instead
of
> setting up/linking to a /dev/bottlerocket.
>
>  On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, cfowler at zfh-csg.penguinpowered.com
> wrote: > I got the firecracker to work!
> >
> > I did this:
> >
> > cat </dev/firecracker &
> >
> > Then ran the program.  For some reason you must do this.  I would
> > assum cat holds open the port and there are certain stty settings
> > when this happens.  I have not had the time
> > to really look at this.  Maybe someone else will know.  I went
> > and bought the deluxe kit since I did get it to work.  Now cron
> > will control the house!  Maybe at will get a little
> > bit of usage too.  Like turn on a lamp when a process is finshed!
> >  Turn on other lamps depending on return code.
> > This could be fun
> >
> > Chris
> > --- Original Message ---
> > "Jim Popovitch" <jimpop at rocketship.com> Wrote on
> > Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:43:10 -0400
> >  ------------------
> > I took advantage of their "pay for shipping and we'll get you
> > hooked" $6
> > offer recently, and experienced the same thing w/ Mandrake 6.0.
> >  I only
> > wanted to fool around with it.  As things are, the devices sit
> > on my desk
> > collecting dust right now.  Still a $6 for 3 paperweights isn't
> > too bad of a
> > deal. ;-)
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <cfowler at zfh-csg.penguinpowered.com>
> > To: <ale at ale.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:40 PM
> > Subject: [ale] BottleRocket
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Anyone here use BottleRocket?  I've purchased the X10 FireCracker
> > > unit but have been unsucessful getting BottleRocket to work.
> > >  I have tried on 3 Machines. 2 RH6.0 and 1 RH5.2.  The winbloze
> > > program works fine.  Is there something that must be done in
> > > the OS to get this device to work?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Chris Fowler
> > >
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