Build an X10 Controller (Part 2): The Controller Program and Utility

摘要

You have a circuit design for your X10 controller. Mow it's time to address the firmware. This is a review of a controller program and a utility to convert a human-readable event file into serial data the X10 controller understands.rnIn the first part of this series, I presented the circuit design for my X10 controller. As with any embedded system project, there's a firmware component. Since the controller communicates with a PC to update its event table, there's also some software needed on the PC. I'm a Linux fan, but I realize that many of you use Windows and other operating systems.