From: Michael Shiloh <michael@MAULER.SRL.ORG>

>I'd toyed with the idea of interfacing X10 to PICs. Anyone have any
>schematics/code/ideas?

I'm sure hoping code is available.  This seems like such a natural
thing to do for a microcontroller project (given the prices of much
of the more versatile home automation stuff) that I hadn't really
considered the possibility that it hadn't been done yet.

A quick web search finds at least one page selling PIC X10 code
and power line interfaces:

http://users1.ee.net/web_surf/Mchip.htm

Also the PIC C compiler from CCS for the MicroChip PIC16 processors
includes software drivers for X10 (and a whole load of other stuff) for $99

http://ccsinfo.com/picc.html

So, apparently this is not an uncommon application.  Anybody know of
any free X10 code or power line interfaces?

DK