Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!unicorn.Berkeley.EDU!whitcomb From: whitcomb@unicorn.Berkeley.EDU (Gregg Whitcomb) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Serial Ports Message-ID: <5843@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 21 Sep 88 04:32:49 GMT References: <5660017@hpcvca.HP.COM> <6418@dasys1.UUCP> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Lines: 19 > I want to connect an X-10 home controller to my amiga. The controller > talks to a serial port. That should be a transparent background task. > > When I am talking to another computer using the ONLY serial port, it > would not be acceptable for the X10 task to either interrupt my > session or to be interrupted by it. One serial port is not adequate. > Charles Brown charles%hpcvca@hplabs.hp.com I only know of one X-10 controller for PCs, and it is a stand-alone box which only needs to be programmed once then forgotten (at least until you want to reprogram your schedule). I can't understand why you want a background task for this purpose. Of course, using a switch box is not ideal, but more financially practical. On the subject of the X-10 system, does anyone know of a device which can read events from the line (and thus allow a program to keep track of what's going on in the house). No doubt, you would want to have a dedicated serial line for such a device. -Gregg Whitcomb whitcomb@ic.berkeley.edu