lighting control

[mattt6065]

I am looking to create a simulated multi room lighting control system to incorparate into a home automation project. hopefully the system will control the lights for a minimum of two rooms and have on off dimming facilities along with an away program to be set when in theory someone went out and wanted one of the lights to come on at random for 1 min every 10mins. has anyone got any advice about how i could achieve this??

anything would be great

Thanks Matt

[wd8ivl]

X10 is a home automation protocol that sends & receives signals over the powerline...see www.x10.com.

I found some Labview X10 drivers in the "Downloads" section at http://www.vicontrols.com/, but I don't know anything about them.

Good luck,

Mike

[SachaE]

Hi,

  when you say "simulated" I'm assuming it's architectural information you're after.

The best option is going to be something like an elapsed timer which you can adjust backwards and forwards slightly so it occurrs for random "ish" timing.

You didn't say which version of LabVIEW you're using, so here's one in LV 8.2. It's a basic architecture to show a principle, and you could easily go with a producer consumer setup to allow better control of the timing to capture the stop condition.

Hope that helps

Sacha Emery
National Instrument (UK)

[02040032200]

How should I interface my X10 Controller with LabVIEW??

I have downloaded the Vicsys Library.

Please suggest me any body has used it.

[wd8ivl]

Matt,

I haven't used the VI.

There is a RS232 to X10 interface.  The part number is TW523.

It looks like the VI you downloaded will send X10 commands out the serial port of your PC to the TW523, and then over the power line, to control the X10 modules.

Mike

[02040032200]

Can you Please tell me what signals do we get from TW523 when we serially interface it with PC??

How do i take the signals in labVIEW?

Message Edited by 02040032200 on 01-22-2007 12:41 AM