Geek House: 10 Hardware Hacking Projects for Around Home by Barry Press, Marcia Press

By Barry Press, Marcia Press

* From the storage to the lounge, Geek apartment offers hackers with 10 PC-based hacking initiatives that aren't for the faint of middle! * Taking the DIY mentality to a complete new point, this publication teaches techies the way to hack, customise, and alter everything-from their sprinkler platforms to the temperature in their barbecues * Adventurous readers will dinner party on such initiatives as fitting a bar code stock process for DVDs or CDs, changing RS232 to instant, scheduling recording from any tv in the home, and making a handheld remote control finder * better half website contains the customized software program and resource code had to energy those geeky creations

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Five types of interpretation are defined for the data and command bytes: ■ Type 0: Shutters and Sunshades ■ Type 1: Sensors ■ Type 2: Security ■ Type 3: Control Modules (Dimmers and Appliances) ■ Type 4: Extended Secure Addressing ■ Type 5: Extended Secure Addressing for Groups Nothing prevents you from using your own message formats with Extended Code or Data functions, except that repeaters may not properly echo your messages onto the other power line phases. doc specification adds some access requirements to the protocol.

If there’s a manual switch at the receiver, see whether it will turn the load on or off. If not, substitute another receiver temporarily and see whether it controls the load where the proper one will not. 25 26 Part I — In the Basement 2. Assuming the receiver can control the load, try isolating the receiver and a known good test transmitter on a power line isolated by a filter from the rest of the house, and see whether the transmitter will control the receiver. If not, check the addressing and connections, and perhaps replace the receiver.

A typical message sequence, one to set unit A1 to a level, was A1 – A1 - Pre-Set Dim - Pre-Set Dim where was a house code from A to P. If you look back at the encodings for the house codes, you’ll see that used in the sequence M, N, O, C, D, A, B, E, F, G, H, K, L, I, J they correspond to the binary sequence 0, 1, 2, ... 14, 15. The sequence A1 – A1 - BPre-Set Dim - BPre-Set Dim would, therefore, set the dimmer to level six. X-10 apparently never made any products that implemented the Pre-Set Dim command, although some others did, so it’s no longer defined in the protocol.

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