From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 14 14:13:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA09022 for current-outgoing; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 14:13:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA09017 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 14:13:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA11803; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 15:13:40 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199706142113.PAA11803@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 From: Steve Passe To: "Justin M. Seger" cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Activehome X10 Interface In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Jun 1997 15:12:44 EDT." <199706141912.PAA12322@freebsd.scds.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 15:13:39 -0600 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, > Hello, I read at some point that there is support built into FreeBSD for using > the X10 TW523 (or something like that) powerline controller. Is there any > support for the activehome interface? If not I'd be willing to give it a shot, The tw523 driver bit-fiddles at a very low level, hence its existance as a /dev/ thingy. The activehome hardware expects to be connected to a standard serial port, and thus would be more of a userland issue. You might want to take a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/HomeAuto/X10.html http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/HomeAuto/Rc.html These pages describe userland code that is currently ported to use the /dev/x10 (ie tw523) driver, as well as several serial port based devices. Porting them to use the activehome should be trivial. -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD