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HARDWARE

  • X10 - The father of home automation. Most mature and widely used (but slow and unreliable) PLC standard.
  • Smarthome/Insteon - New wave in home automation for general public. Inexpensive and backwards compatible with X10, but more reliable and has better quality devices than X10. Protocol adds many new features: such as scenes, devices with memory and presets, breaking the limit of 255 devices, etc).

SOFTWARE

  • Mister House - free, a cross platform, open source home automation program written in Perl. It fires events based on time, web, socket, voice, and serial data.
  • IOX - IOX is an input / output crosspoint. It allows to execute X10 commands from IR remote control, and more.
  • HomeZIX - New and fast developing cross-protocol automation software for Windows. Works with X10, Insteon and Zwave devices. Provides powerfull scripting via C# language. Additional modules add Voice control, Yahoo chat control and IR. Free version with limited functionality available for download from company’s website, as well as full version for $25.
  • PowerHome - ($69.95 full version, win) a powerfull, scriptable home automation software for users with programming background.
  • Bill’s Voice Commander - (donationware, win), BVC will let you give voice commands to control devices in your home and give you voice and audio feedback about what is going on in your X10 environment.
  • X10 Dispatcher - (free, win), an application which relays events raised in an X10 automated environment using MSN Messenger, email, and the web.

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