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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Troubleshooting Automation Problems => Topic started by: P4d0uch on August 31, 2012, 03:26:21 AM

Title: Newbie question
Post by: P4d0uch on August 31, 2012, 03:26:21 AM
Hi i found this forum months ago but now i decided to buy x10 kit. I found this http://www.powerhouse.eu/happy-home-p-94.html?language=en (http://www.powerhouse.eu/happy-home-p-94.html?language=en). But my question is will it support voice commands over BVC? or i need Active Home Professional because this kit contains just Active Home. I don't need the big kits because my plan is just one room for now and this is cheaper than if i buy this stuff one by one.

Thanks for any answers and sorry for my English....

//sorry wrong link. now it is ok
Title: Re: Newbie question
Post by: Brian H on August 31, 2012, 06:14:39 AM
The kit you are linking to. Has no controller in it to run either Active Home or Active Home Pro.
The LM12 is a lamp module.
The TM12 is a transceiver to take the UR24 remotes signals and send them on the power line and also has a built in appliance module you can also control.
The UR24 is a remote that sends X10 commands to the TM12 for sending over the power lines.
Title: Re: Newbie question
Post by: P4d0uch on August 31, 2012, 01:29:32 PM
link is fixed sorry
Title: Re: Newbie question
Post by: dhouston on August 31, 2012, 02:11:01 PM
Wow! $107 list price for a CM11-USB.
Title: Re: Newbie question
Post by: P4d0uch on August 31, 2012, 02:33:18 PM
im sorry but is that good or bad price?
Title: Re: Newbie question
Post by: Brian H on August 31, 2012, 03:04:06 PM
Good or bad price?
Since we are most use to the US and Canadian costs. Maybe one of our other European users may have a better opinion.
Title: Re: Newbie question
Post by: dhouston on August 31, 2012, 04:01:14 PM
X-10 prices in Europe have always been substantially higher than for equivalent devices sold in N. America. In part, that's because of the bigger market here and, in part, because of different regulations as well as different plug styles needed for different countries. Also, adding USB to what is, at heart, a serial device adds a few dollars to cost.

A few years back when IBM got out of Home Automation, we bought equivalent kits here that they dumped for $5. I still have some HD-11s (which were the IBM model of the CM11A), transceivers and ???.  

EDIT: Here's a link to the packages that IBM dumped for <$5 each.