Ruben vd Merwe wrote:
> I am very interested in Home Automation and was wandering if I can get a
> few pointers to web sites with info on this topic. I am thinking of some
> serial comms with a PC, I2c or something similar. And PIC based modules
> all over the place, talking back to a pc.

With all the interest this thread has generated I guess I should go
ahead and plug my own work. I started out on a similar project a few
years back to wire a house my parents were constructing. I ended up with
a set of nodes organized on a star shaped CAN bus (yes, you can do that
with CAN, works great). Each node is based around an 16F877 and MCP2510.
Input nodes can handle 26 SPST switches and output nodes can handle 26
relays. The software isn't very user friendly and I haven't had time to
work on a central control applet, but it all works. Since moving to
California I haven't thought much about the project (parents are on the
east coast, US), although if I had to do it again I'd probably use one
of the 18F parts, too bad they weren't available sooner.

Here's the little bit of info I've gotten around to posting.
http://terrandev.com/~bfoz/lakehouse/

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