Re: [LHA-misc] FireCrack

[C. R. B. I. <cr...@ea...>]

On Thu, 2 May 2002 17:25:33 -0400 (CLT)
"Edward Vargas P." <wi...@in...> wrote:

> I need to know if someone is working with FireCrack
> because i would like to start working with that
> If not, please, send me information about some others
> devices.
> 
> Bye.
> 

Assuming that you're referring to X10's firecracker module and not some
program called FireCrack, yeah, I'm using it. I drive it with bottlerocket
(look for that on http://freshmeat.net).

I've got close to a dozen X10 modules in play around the house. I wrote a
CGI button page on my main Linux server so anybody on the LAN can control
things, there are a few wall-mounted transmitter switches around, and I've
got X10 events in the Linux box's crontab along with event chime sounds
(6:00pm weekdays it's the clock-tower sound of Furinkan High School). I
use it all to run incandescent lights, get us up in time for
off-to-school, and enforce TV dark-times (my kids are 8 & 10 and anime
otaku like me, but nobody gets to watch TV except on the weekends).

Nothing fancy compared to some of the plans discussed on this list, but it
works as far as it goes (I still need to write a cron-like scheduler that
understands holidays and school vacations, so nobody has to listen to all
of "Welcome To The Jungle" at 7:45AM when the 10-yr-old has a vacation
day).


I can toss you the pieces, all but the MP3's, and point out where I
downloaded the Ranma-1/2 WAVs, if you're interested.

btw if you put bottlerocket/firecracker X10 events into your crontab,
space them a minute apart, otherwise one or both won't get executed.

cr