Home Hax: Making your House Interact with You - VGF

TheMasterSwordsman · 07-31-2006, 08:43 PM

That's right, people! There are a couple of things you can do with a house, an overhead light, a InfraRed motion detector, and an IR Reciver with an outlet. You just deactivate all of the power in your house, unscrew the faceplate on the wall, test the wires of the switch behind the faceplate (for safety, DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP, EVEN IF YOU DID DEACTIVATE ALL POWER). Then, replace the standard switch with an X10 switch (match the wires to the appropriate colors), after that, mount an X10 InfraRed motion detector, then connect an X10 Wireless Reciever into a nearby wall outlet, then mount an X10 motion detector on the wall. Configure them all to channel 1 or 2, particularly 1. Reactivate all power, and test your motion activated light. If all goes well, your light should turn right on. If not, confirm all previous steps and retry. Also, if this is an overhead light you are dealing with, make sure the appropriate strings are pulled to work correctly. You can use a PC with X10 technology to do such things. There are certain websites that teach you how to do things with X10 like build your own computer and make it a total media center that automatically allows you to play classic game ROMs with the most popular emulators, watch streaming television, archive DVDs, and organize MP3 playlists. All with an X10 InfraRed remote, and a PC that is synchronized with a TV.

Three triangles... two maidens... one hero. The Legend of the Triforce.

Chunky Kong12345 · 08-01-2006, 03:32 PM

Dude, no one would bother to do this.

TheMasterSwordsman · 08-01-2006, 06:47 PM

It's worth posting, though. Good cut-and-paste info.

GRENTLEMEN · 08-01-2006, 08:43 PM

Girl is naked, take a movie
Girl is looking picture cutie
You buy things from pop-up banner
You get wallet, purchase camera

We must destroy X10
We must destroy all Internet ad
We must destroy X10
We must destroy all Internet ad

Window pop-up on the screen
Taking control of my machine
Making all internet user insane
X10 profit goes down the drain

Girl is naked, take a movie
Girl is looking picture cutie
You buy things from pop-up banner
You get wallet, purchase camera

We must destroy X10
We must destroy all Internet ad
We must destroy X10
We must destroy all Internet ad

Economy failing, is X10 fault
Popping up window is computer assault
Window pop-up, again and again
The only solution is CRUSH X10!

We must destroy X10
We must destroy all Internet ad
We must destroy X10
We must destroy all Internet ad

We must destroy X10!
We must destroy all Internet ad!

Irby · 08-06-2006, 02:14 PM

I dont understand about this house crap.What the hell does this have to do with pc's

07-31-2006, 08:43 PM	#1
TheMasterSwordsman Junior Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: South Carolina Gender: Posts: 135 Thanks: 18 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Points: 10,008.89 Bank: 71.71 Total Points: 10,080.60 Donate	Home Hax: Making your House Interact with You That's right, people! There are a couple of things you can do with a house, an overhead light, a InfraRed motion detector, and an IR Reciver with an outlet. You just deactivate all of the power in your house, unscrew the faceplate on the wall, test the wires of the switch behind the faceplate (for safety, DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP, EVEN IF YOU DID DEACTIVATE ALL POWER). Then, replace the standard switch with an X10 switch (match the wires to the appropriate colors), after that, mount an X10 InfraRed motion detector, then connect an X10 Wireless Reciever into a nearby wall outlet, then mount an X10 motion detector on the wall. Configure them all to channel 1 or 2, particularly 1. Reactivate all power, and test your motion activated light. If all goes well, your light should turn right on. If not, confirm all previous steps and retry. Also, if this is an overhead light you are dealing with, make sure the appropriate strings are pulled to work correctly. You can use a PC with X10 technology to do such things. There are certain websites that teach you how to do things with X10 like build your own computer and make it a total media center that automatically allows you to play classic game ROMs with the most popular emulators, watch streaming television, archive DVDs, and organize MP3 playlists. All with an X10 InfraRed remote, and a PC that is synchronized with a TV. Three triangles... two maidens... one hero. The Legend of the Triforce.

08-01-2006, 03:32 PM	#2
Chunky Kong12345 BEEP BEEP I'M A JEEP Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: ogmftwbqq Gender: Posts: 16,435 Thanks: 61 Thanked 212 Times in 155 Posts Points: 249.71 Bank: 84,672.20 Total Points: 84,921.91 Donate	Dude, no one would bother to do this.

08-01-2006, 06:47 PM	#3
TheMasterSwordsman Junior Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: South Carolina Gender: Posts: 135 Thanks: 18 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Points: 10,008.89 Bank: 71.71 Total Points: 10,080.60 Donate	It's worth posting, though. Good cut-and-paste info.

08-01-2006, 08:43 PM	#4
GRENTLEMEN Retro Nintendo Supermod Art & Literature Mod Metroid Mod Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I rub my tilde all over your asterisk Gender: Posts: 15,910 Thanks: 464 Thanked 1,179 Times in 634 Posts Points: 7,652.54 Bank: 1,866,967.49 Total Points: 1,874,620.02 Donate	Girl is naked, take a movie Girl is looking picture cutie You buy things from pop-up banner You get wallet, purchase camera We must destroy X10 We must destroy all Internet ad We must destroy X10 We must destroy all Internet ad Window pop-up on the screen Taking control of my machine Making all internet user insane X10 profit goes down the drain Girl is naked, take a movie Girl is looking picture cutie You buy things from pop-up banner You get wallet, purchase camera We must destroy X10 We must destroy all Internet ad We must destroy X10 We must destroy all Internet ad Economy failing, is X10 fault Popping up window is computer assault Window pop-up, again and again The only solution is CRUSH X10! We must destroy X10 We must destroy all Internet ad We must destroy X10 We must destroy all Internet ad We must destroy X10! We must destroy all Internet ad!

08-06-2006, 02:14 PM	#5
Irby Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada, Eh. Gender: Posts: 6,448 Thanks: 306 Thanked 93 Times in 78 Posts Blog Entries: 5 Points: 37,664.60 Bank: 13,655.09 Total Points: 51,319.69 Donate	I dont understand about this house crap.What the hell does this have to do with pc's