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The ability to run MisterHouse, http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/ would be very cool. Hopefully, this will become another feature of the Pogoplug soon.
Pogoplug seems absolutely perfect for the job of home automation.
X10 is a widespread power control system that sends signals over the power lines to control the power-on state of devices elsewhere on the same circuit. For example, I could plug my desk lamp into the wall through an X10 adapter, and then somewhere else in the house I can use an X10 controller to switch the lamp on and off, by sending a signal through the powerline itself.
Normally, you'd have to have a PC set up with a controller card which plugs into its own dedicated outlet in the wall. But - seeing as how pogoplug is already wall mounted, adding X10 support to it would simplify a home-automation setup significantly!
Add to the mix a homeplug (network over power lines) system, and you wouldn't even need to have an ethernet cable coming out of the pogoplug - just a single walwart with no junk to control everything in your house. Amazing.
Any chance of a future pogoplug supporting this?
July 27, 2009 7:42 AM
August 12, 2009 12:48 AM
That's a cool idea.
I have many X10 items in my house and while I still use it, I've found it is unreliable. I think for me it has to do with how many noisy transformers are plugged in. I wish X10 as masters of marketing :P could revise their product to actually be reliable.
Maybe if someone were to do this with PogoPlug (or SheevaPlugs in general) they should bet on a more robust powerline control protocol.
October 9, 2009 9:50 AM
Core said: That's a cool idea. I have many X10 items in my house and while I still use it, I've found it is unreliable. I think for me it has to do with how many noisy transformers are plugged in. I wish X10 as masters of marketing :P could revise their product to actually be reliable. Maybe if someone were to do this with PogoPlug (or SheevaPlugs in general) they should bet on a more robust powerline control protocol.
x10.com didn't develop the X10 protocol. They just stole the name. X10 is a 34 year old open standard. Which is showing it's age. It is possible to make it reliable but requires noise filters on some power supplies and a good coupler/repeater on your breaker box to carry the signals to both legs of your house's power. It's very reliable for me, I even control my thermostat via x10 with no issues.
That being said, I've been thinking for sometime of ways to integrate PogoPlug into my home automation system and have yet to hit on a great idea for marrying the two. It seems as if there are too many limitations. For example, any involved automation system uses many different protocols, RF, X10, UFID, Bluetooth, etc. This requires the ability to talk to external devices via, serial, USB, etc. Something PogoPlug can't do. This also means that PogoPlug fails the basic requirement of X10, which is getting the X10 signal onto the power line.
I use HomeSeer to automation my home and have successfully been able to get HomeSeer to report on the space available on my PogoPlug, and warn me when it's low. I can also remotely reboot PogoPlug via HomeSeer. Other than that, I have not been able to come come up with any other creative (and useful) uses of the two.
Seems like this would be better suited as it's own SheevaPlug project, rather than piggybacked on PogoPlug.
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