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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: mechy on March 12, 2016, 11:17:06 PM
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I finally tracked Jim Hines down,the author of EZHOME and EZCRON amiga X-10 home control software. He was kind enough to give me permission to release it.
Jim no longer supports it so please don't bother him .:banana:
The software uses the CM11A x-10 controller, these are still available and work with many common control modules.a quick google search will find the controllers.
I have submitted it to Aminet but it has not appeared yet,so i uploaded it here:
(http://www.megafileupload.com/themes/flow/images/green_tick_small.png)ezcron4.lha(http://www.megafileupload.com/themes/flow/images/blue_right_arrow.png) http://www.megafileupload.com/atvF/ezcron4.lha
(http://www.megafileupload.com/themes/flow/images/green_tick_small.png)ezcron4.readme(http://www.megafileupload.com/themes/flow/images/blue_right_arrow.png) http://www.megafileupload.com/atvG/ezcron4.readme
(http://www.megafileupload.com/themes/flow/images/green_tick_small.png)ezhome.lha(http://www.megafileupload.com/themes/flow/images/blue_right_arrow.png) http://www.megafileupload.com/atvI/ezhome.lha
(http://www.megafileupload.com/themes/flow/images/green_tick_small.png)ezhome.readme(http://www.megafileupload.com/themes/flow/images/blue_right_arrow.png) http://www.megafileupload.com/atvJ/ezhome.readme
If these links are expired, check Aminet
Here is a article about it from many years back:
https://web.archive.org/web/19990117001020/http://www.hometoys.com/htinews/aug98/reviews/hines/AmigaHA.html
If you have a need for the software or not, please download it and spread it so it can never be lost.:D
Thanks,
Mech
EDIT: The files have appeared on AMINET now:D
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X-10 is cool stuff, limited number of channels but still very useful
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Awesome, looks very advanced for its time! I currently use INSTEON here with an ISY controller.
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INSTEON has more functionality and devices but only works on windows :-(
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FYI a lot of INSTEON devices also had the ability to be programmed with X10 addresses. Not sure if they still do.
The ISY can also send and react to X10 commands so seems like you could integrate your Amiga into a modern home automation setup pretty easily with this application.
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I finally tracked Jim Hines down,the author of EZHOME and EZCRON amiga X-10 home control software. He was kind enough to give me permission to release it.
Jim no longer supports it so please don't bother him .:banana:
Just stumbled across this thread. While I had a vague recollection of the Name "EZHome" I didn't know what it stands for. So I followed your link to the old web-archive article about it.
Having read the article I have to say I'm impressed.
Didn't know such a cool tool existed for the Amiga!
Really cool!
Will definitely download it, buy the CM11A Controller and 'play' with it - maybe I can discover some other purposes to use it for!
You wrote he gave you the permission to release the software. Did he also give you access to the source code, so that the software could be updated/advanced by interested people?
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Will definitely download it, buy the CM11A controller and 'play' with it
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As the CM11A controller is no longer made:
How about the compatibility with its successor XTB-232 (http://jvde.us//xtb/XTB-232_description.htm)?
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As the CM11A controller is no longer made:
How about the compatibility with its successor XTB-232 (http://jvde.us//xtb/XTB-232_description.htm)?
the cm11a can be found all over us ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xcm11a.TRS0&_nkw=cm11a&_sacat=0
Being 120v these will not work for you likely. The XTB-232 should work,but i have no experience with it.
All that is in the archives is all he had software wise,sorry.
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Having read the article I have to say I'm impressed.
Didn't know such a cool tool existed for the Amiga!
Really cool!
It wasn't even the only x10 automation software on Amiga.
http://www.mdr.co.uk/mdr/mdr1.html
Amiga Active article below.
http://amr.abime.net/amr_popup_picture.php?src=amiga_active/magscans/aa15_2000_12/037.jpg&c=58979&n=1&filesize=264749
http://amr.abime.net/amr_popup_picture.php?src=amiga_active/magscans/aa15_2000_12/038.jpg&c=58979&n=1&filesize=276932
http://amr.abime.net/amr_popup_picture.php?src=amiga_active/magscans/aa15_2000_12/039.jpg&c=58979&n=1&filesize=318033
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It wasn't even the only x10 automation software on Amiga.
http://www.mdr.co.uk/mdr/mdr1.html
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Very interesting.
Where can I download it?
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Is the dev section the source code of ezhome (and other parts of this) or is that an SDK to hook into it only? Would be nice if we could get full sources as well.
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Very interesting.
Where can I download it?
The company is listed as active at companies house so it may be worth contacting them.
http://www.mdr.co.uk/mdr/mdr_4.html
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Hi,
You should be able to find CM11's in Europe as people upgrade their HA systems. I still have one in use with a few X10 modules, but have mainly updated my HA to Z-wave. I think I will be able to put my hands on another CM11 and a few X10 modules towards the end of the year if anybody is interested (UK type).
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Hi all,
Does anybody in the UK want to try X10 with the Amiga software mentioned above ? I now have:
One CM12u including a 9 pin serial lead. I believe this is the European version of the CM11, but I can't prove that (But see below).
Four AM12 appliance modules (With code wheels)
One Domia appliance module (No code wheels)
Two LM12 lamp modules (With code wheels)
Four Domia lamp modules (No code wheels)
One LM15EB "Socket rocket" plugs into a BC lamp connector and the bulb plugs into it.
FYI:
1. Appliance modules are on/off switches with internal relays, and lamp modules are dimmers for incandescent bulbs.
2. I presently use a CM12u with Homeseer HS3, where it is set as "CM11A compatible".
These X10 devices were working properly when removed from my other property. I'm sure there must be a couple more modules, as I can't find the rf to X10 modules, which allow you to use X10 rf remote controls. I will have a dig around.
I have the option of selling this kit on Ebay (after testing it) where I would be asking around £10 per device, or, if there is any interest on this forum, I will sell it without testing for a low price.
Is anybody interested ?
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love the article highlighting the beauty of AmigaOS/ AREXX but had to sigh when I read "To enlighten those who don't know, Amiga Inc. was recently purchased by Gateway 2000 and is staging a comeback."
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Here is a article about it from many years back:
https://web.archive.org/web/19990117001020/http://www.hometoys.com/htinews/aug98/reviews/hines/AmigaHA.html
Interesting, if extremely brief, mention of OS9 there, a precusor to Amiga DOS, it was a pre-emptive multi-tasking operating system that borrowed some concepts from UNIX.
Not that many of you would remember that OS (it is NOT MacOS9), it featured a micro kernel (like MorphOS), and required that code run under it be written to be re-entrant and position independent.
I was selling 68K based systems running that when the Amiga was being offered by Commodore.
The Amiga had sound and graphic acceleration we didn't offer, and our GUI was optional, BUT our hardware was cheaper, supported multiple users, and used memory more efficiently (which back then was important as it was DAMNED expensive).
BTW - If anyone knows someone that owns a Peripheral Technologies PT68K4 or K5 system, I would be VERY interested in buying it to recreate one of these setups.
AND, its cool to see someone still interested in X10, I had my whole house filled with those modules at one point.
We had those in stock at Delmar Company too.
An early "Smart Home" concept. Still quite functional.
...(I)had to sigh when I read "To enlighten those who don't know, Amiga Inc. was recently purchased by Gateway 2000 and is staging a comeback."
My first BIG sigh, was when visiting IBM engineers handed me a beta copy of Windows 3.0, then another later when Tandy and a few other companies started to promote a MultiMedia PC standard (MPC).
By the time the Gateway project was announced...I wasn't that optimistic that anything born from the 68K market outside of the Mac would survive.
SO...no big pregnant sighs there.
Sucks have a better idea and having it quashed when your competition steals your thunder, doesn't it? :confused:
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Is anybody interested ?
Ebay it is then :roflmao:
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Wow.. cool looking interface. That stuff looks very flexible.
"I can render frames with LightWave 3D and have lights flash on then off to indicate that a frame has been rendered. For that matter, I could even have them display on my tv for a few seconds so I may spot check them while watching tv in the other room (Most Amigas have built-in 15khz video output signals). "
Thats freakin cool.