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The last component of the X10 home automation system that I haven’t yet talked about is the receiver, or the module. Modules receive and carry out the commands sent via the controller. The obvious need for the receiver is that you need something to do the actual controlling of the light or appliance or whatever you are trying to automate. Like controllers, there are many types and variations of receivers, depending on the particular application.
If you know all this and just want to browse some products – we’ve got you covered. Skip to the end of this post for a listing of X10 modules.
This news release caught my eye. Cornell University participated in this year’s Solar Decathlon, a competition between 20 university teams given $100,000 to design, build, operate, and finally showcase a sustainable home of the future.
In this next post in the X10 Home Automation series, we’ll discuss in detail X10 controllers. Controllers do exactly as their name indicates – they allow users of the system to send commands to devices to turn on or off. They do this by transmitting a signal, which can happen in several ways: wireless by RF or IR to a transceiver, or through a powerline signal as a hard-wired switch or plug-in controller.
If you know all this and just want to browse some products – we’ve got you covered. Skip to the end of this post for a listing of X10 controllers.
In the introductory post to the X10 Home Automation series, I gave a brief introduction to what transceivers do in an X10 system. Transceivers are at the heart of the X10 protocol – basically they are the bridge between wireless control and the powerline control of X10 (see How X10 Works). They work by transforming RF signals and converting them into a signal that can be transmitted over the existing powerlines in your home, otherwise known as the PowerLine Carrier (PLC).
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