Hi Neil, thanks for the reply, 

(slow response from me due to Easter hols :)

Most of my problems were either of my own doing, or of my lack of obeying
the old adage RTFM... If I had of read the manuals (or at least properly), I
would have spotted the info about "power on mode" and "something has changed
on the X10 "network" so here are the status changes".

I have written some vb6 code to talk directly to the X10 CM12 module and it
works 100% successfully now. I also went down the xAP connector route but in
the end I have decided that with the PC being a power hog and quite a chunky
unit (in comparison), I am developing using a PIC 18F458 (as I have a couple
in my spares box). 

I currently have 20x4 LCD, 4x4 Keypad (0-9, a-f), X10 interface (RS232!),
I2C Real time Clock, and RS232 to the PC. I have a sometimes working X10
again due to my not responding to the status response from the CM12
controller. But I think I should really go to the DIY tw523 route. I have
schematics for the zero crossing and 120khz carrier insertion stuff so once
I am happy with the code with the current method, I will go back to
bit-banging the TW style interface. The reason for going to the
non-intelligent method is to reduce the installation cost when, and I know
it will happen, my family etc want one like mine. (it's happened before).

Jim





-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
Neil Cherry
Sent: 06 April 2007 18:53
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: Long reply. RE:Was [BUY] Help with microSD or SD card
interfacing- now ooops

Howard Winter wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 02:49:08 +0100, Jim wrote:
> 
>> My latest horror story is worse than that one James...
>>
>> ...
> 
> Jim,
> 
> It's a bit late now, but there is someone you might have contacted: Armin
Schwartz, who has written "House/2", a PC 
> application to run under OS/2 which communicates with the CM12 and others
(I use it at home).  He's probaby already 
> solved all the problems you had!  
> 
> Have a look at: http://home.att.net/~lpainfo/house2.html

I'm not quite following what's going on here. What problems are
you having with X10? I think I know my way around X10 pretty
well. I have a nice hack using the partial guts of a TW523.
Currently I only have it setup as a sniffer but you should be
able to write bits with it also (moving the actual intelligence
out to a PC for testing). See:

http://www.linuxha.com/athome/common/mTW523/index.html

I'll try to get the rest of the links back (they're 404 I think
I moved them to the wrong place after a disk crash).

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