Re: snmpset(), X10, and other stuff
| From: | Jim Winstead | Date: | Mon, 12 Jul 1999 00:32:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: snmpset(), X10, and other stuff | ||
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Steven Lawrance wrote:
> I was thinking about porting my X10-CP290 home automation library to UNIX so
> it can also be in PHP. Does this seem like something that would be useful?
> It only uses the CP290 unit, but it supports all the operations that it can
> do and has been tested over several years in its Win32 DLL form.
This sounds pretty cool, but one problem is that talking to X10 devices
usually requires the correct permissions to open a serial device, which
PHP may not have.
With PHP4, it will be easier to maintain third-party PHP extensions.
Even though some of us might find it useful, I don't think we should
have X10 functionality in the main distribution.
Jim