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1. FireCracker™ Computer Interface

2. PalmPad™Remote Control

3. Wireless Link Module ™

4. Lamp Module

What's included

$49.99

No bigger than a Fig Newton, the interface plugs into a serial port in the back of your computer. Our through-port design allows you to plug another device into the back of the interface -- you need not lose a serial port to use FireCracker!

Using the FireCracker™ software allows you to send commands through this interface to the Wireless Link Module™and through the household wiring. Customize your home appliances to fit your own lifestyle. For our suggestions about how to use FireCracker ™, click here.

This interface can control up to 16 sets of lights and appliances.

For more information, see these pages:

1.  "Through-port"

2. "PalmPad ™ Remote"

3. More interface product info

The PalmPad™Remote is one of our most powerful remotes. It fits nicely in your hand or on a bedside table. Impress your friends by whipping it out and "zapping" your house into action!

Lets you control up to 16 sets of lights and appliances when you are away from your PC.

For more info on the PalmPad, click here.

Using baseball terminology, this module is the "catcher" to the computer interface "pitcher." It takes the wireless signal from the computer interface and converts it to an X10 signal, sending commands through the household wiring to lamp and appliance modules.

You can also think of this module as a traffic controller. It will send signals, based on the computer interface commands, to only those modules keyed to a certain housecode (A-1, A-2, etc.). This allows you to control up to four sets of lights and appliances at a time.

Yet another use for this module is that it can double up as an appliance module. Simply plug a household appliance ( like a coffeepot or radio -- larger appliances like sprinklers need a Universal Module™) into the link module and it will respond to computer interface commands.

To expand your X10 system, you can purchase additional appliance modules separately.

For more information on the link module, click here.

This is the device that makes your lamps "smart." See the black and red dials on the right? They let you set the house code for the module. Right now it is set to A-1. When the computer interface and wireless module send commands along the house wiring for all modules set to A-1, this module will respond -- and turn on, turn off, or progressively dim the lamp connected to it.

For more information on the lamp module, click here.