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ECET0purdue

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yes the touchscreen is the terminal, and also yes iam belive iam giong to use the x10 system for the lights so what i need help on is the signal from the car touchscreen/terminal to the trasceiver then to the controller.. iam guessing if i could find the right trasceivers then it would not be a problem but iam cant find really any? do you know were i could look any good links... also the block diagram iam wokring on now i will post it ....looking a lot better mon.
thanks,

glen.

 

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Staigen said:
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It is not a desktop, and i have never said that, but it is a computer and it is also a terminal!

//Staigen
I never said that you did. If you would reread what, specifically, I typed, you would see that it was what I had intended to write in the first place. I never said that it wasn't a computer or a terminal. I was simply referencing the supported processors of Borland's C++ Builder's compiler and giving suggestions for compilers that would work. You missed the point completely by trying to nitpick my statement. No matter how much of a computer you say this terminal may be, Borland's compiler still doesn't support it. However, ECET0purdue picked up on this and the terminal came with its own software, which he said he would use, so it's a moot point.
 
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Staigen1

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Hi

Okay ECET0purdue, i wont reply to TekNoir so you can get peace in your topic.

touchscreen -> transceiver -> micorocontroller-> (now iam using powerline commucation so do i need a certin microcontroller? ) and then from microcontroller to lightswitch reciver ->lights.


pretty simple block diagram....toooo simple...what am i missing?
You dont miss so much, i belive it goes like this:
In car:
Terminal <--> USB Dongle
Thats all in the car

In house:
USB Dongle <--> USB Controller IC <==> Microcontroller <--> X10 Controling Devices -->Appliances

Where:
<-->
 
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ECET0purdue

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Well still working on it...football game interupted the block diagram. 

USB Dongle <--> USB Controller IC <==> Microcontroller <--> X10 Controling Devices -->Appliances

should they all be two way... that way the screen would know if a llight is on or off?

also you said microcontroller to x10 .. i can not go USB Dongle <--> USB Controller IC  stright to the x10.... and how much do you know about the x10 because i had some questions about it too and when i google it all i get is "for sale" items..dam internet..
cheers
glen.
 

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Hi

should they all be two way... that way the screen would know if a llight is on or off
Why not, its allready built in, that way you can have 2 icons, one dark and one in a brighter colour, indicating if the appliance is on or off! :) Observe, i saying appliance, it can contol much moore than a lamp, you can even manage the heating in your house, if it have electrical or electronic control, also open and close your garage port. I told you, it's only your imagination that is the limit!

also you said microcontroller to x10 .. i can not go USB Dongle <--> USB Controller IC
 

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I Googled X10 Theory and got lots of technical stuff. "Theory" is a majic word.

 

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Hey Audioguru, you know how to google, i have my tricks too! ;D ;D ;D

//Staigen

 

ECET0purdue

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well if you know a good x10 controller it would help....also how do you program them. is there a software that comewith the controller. or do you have to buy seprate? also i was looking at them and all i could see was a RG-11 interface?
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now iam not sure on the programming but if it is RG-11 then would it be posable to go from the usb and use a usb-to-RG11 converter then strait to the x10 controller? What i was thinking was on the touchscreen (should be reciving thur) if i could have it send the data that the x10 would need then i would not need another microcontoller?... .. iam starting to confuse myself with what information the x10 needs in order to send the correct signals?

 

ECET0purdue

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Also you have any magic google words for searching ... how to program x10 controllers?

 

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Hi Glen,
The RG-11 is a phone jack to connect to a serial port on a PC.
The company that makes X-10 modules will sell you a book about how to program a pc to control them. They don't provide technical support for your programming. Good luck.

 

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Hi

If you got confused by the X10 system there are other ways to go, i only pointed you at the X10, the meaning was that you shoud look at how they did, and than design something similar! I found some PDF-files about X10, and downloaded two of them, but im sure you get them too. You can also design a system that is diffrent from the X10, one that you can understand totally. :)

//Staigen

 

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hello,  ok i thought RG-45 was phone?

The RG-11 is a phone jack to connect to a serial port on a PC.
that confuzed me... is that not 3 different types of commucation?  also i have read up on the x10 and i would like to use them. i just need to find out how to program them?  and as far as making my own ..i think that would take longer then the time i have. so i think ill stick with the x10 What were the files you downloaded can you put a link to them? Also so you what your saying is there is more then one type of program that can program this.  kind of like there is more then one porgram to program C++ ok so ill search now for programming of the x10
cheers,
and thanks,
glen
 

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Hi

Sorry i haven't been online for a while, the monitor brooke down :(

well i decided not to use them
Ok

instead i found ones easer to use :D
Thats nice, show us moore :)

that were not scsi interface
Maybee i haven't read properly, but wich one used scsi

And please, dont call your terminal "touchscreen", it is a terminal that have a touchscreen!

//Staigen
 
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