X10 Tutorial

Development Suggestions for the Arduino Project
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The circuit diagram on the X10 tutorial is incorrect. It does not work at all.

This has been discussed before:

http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,17333.0.html

The problems are as follows:

  1. The Zero Crossing and Data lines are swapped.
  2. The jack orientation is confusing and should be marked with pin numbers.

Here is a suggested replacement:

Also, the only X10 command example shown in the tutorial is the "ALL_LIGHTS_ON" command, which not all modules respond to. Addressing a single module is not particularly intuitive. An example of this could be added as well:

// Turns on module A1
myHouse.write(A, UNIT_1, 1);
myHouse.write(A, ON, 1);