Re: snmpset(), X10, and other stuff

On 12 Jul 1999, Jim Winstead wrote: > 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. CP-290 is probably the worst serial->X-10 thing around -- it's transmit-only and has no collision detection. I use "Two-Way" with TW523 with my HTTP <-> X-10 thing (http://phobos.illtel.denver.co.us/~abelits/apartment.php3), and CM11 seems to be a good choice, too. PHP probably isn't the best language to implement such a thing either -- delays and locking will cause a lot of trouble. I wrote the program that control my x-10 devices as fhttpd module in C, and while it probably will be a good idea to use php frontend (my page with cameras and x-10 link is in php after all), the "engine" should be very careful about simultaneous requests, spontaneous responses, delays, error recovery and collisions. PHP isn't designed for this. > 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. This is the least of your problems. -- Alex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Excellent.. now give users the option to cut your hair you hippie! -- Anonymous Coward