On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Chuck Hast wrote:
> Yep, I need to control a whole sprinkler and watering system.
>
> I have looked at commercial sprinkler controllers and what I
> saw did not do exactly what I want to do, so my question is how
> hard would it be to set up a LINUX box to control about 20
> valves turning them on and off at different times?
There is a clean X-10 implementation in Linux -- which is AC
line control. If the valves use a low voltage (24DC or so
forth, a triac based system, with latching encoded parallel
port control is in mand of the hobbyist magazines -- Circuit
Cellar and the like.
-- Russ Herrold
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