home-automation

How does one get started writing applications that interact with x10 protocol?

As a hobby I'm looking into home automation. My understanding is that there are a couple open protocols out there and the most popular seems to be x10. I'm wondering if anyone with experience writing code against x10 devices could comment on how they got started, what languages they used and any other relevant information. ...

C# Home Automation Library

I'm a C# developer looking to get into home automation as a hobby. I have done a little research, but was wondering if anyone knows of a good .NET library that supports Insteon hardware. I'd rather use Insteon than X10 due to reliability issues. My ultimate objective at this point is to have a simple home automation server (maybe ligh...

home-automation x10 with a linux based nas

i have automated my home with the x10 protocol and use the cm15pro interface on my computer to program the switches now i want to connect the cm15pro interface to my synology nas and run commands with php on the nas to the interface are there programs for running the cm15pro under linux on a nas ? and is there a commandline tool for li...