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| (from Home Toys web site) Detecting If Someone Has Approached Your Home: Allan Chau I have the X10 ActiveHome kit and an X10 wireless PIR (DM10A) that works with the RF module in the ActiveHome kit. When someone approaches the house, the PIR sends out an X10 code (for example A1). With the ActiveHome software, I wrote a simple macro that turns on a small table lamp (set to A5) when it sees this X10 code. There is no macro to turn off the lamp. When we come home, if we see that the lamp is on, we know someone has been to our door and do a quick check outside the front door. Then we reset the lamp using the keychain remote, which is set to the same code as the lamp module. You can have the macro turn on other things besides a lamp. I'm thinking of replacing the lamp with a simple LED circuit hooked up to an appliance module. Cost of all components is about $130 (ActiveHome is about $100 and the PIR is about $30), but it also gets you a powerful home automation tool. We've found it useful because our mail carrier will sometimes leave small packages (but too big to fit in the mailbox) by our front door if no one is home. Unfortunately, we usually enter and exit our home through the garage out back and may not look out the front door for days at a time. We've had a couple of incidents where packages were sitting outside our door for who knows how long. Now, with this detector, we know when someone's been to the door. Component List: X10 ActiveHome kit X10 Wireless PIR (DM10A) |
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