Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 336 pages
- Published by: O'Reilly Media, Inc. December 1, 2004
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0596004052
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0596004057
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Book Dimensions:
9.6 x 7.9 x 0.7 inches
- Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Reader Reviews
A better title for this might be "Introduction to X10 Technologies," because that's all it was. That being said, I learned many interesting things about X10, from an end user's perspective. Frankly, before I bought this book, I didn't even know that X10 was a protocol, and not a product. (You've seen all those X10 camera links on the web.) But, to pretend that you'll get many ideas from these cookie-cutter projects, or to pretend that this is a book "for geeks" is to seriuosly mislabel this book. As I said earlier, the book on it's own merits, isn't bad. The projects are step-by-step recipes for doing things like hooking up X10 controls to light switches, motion detectors, and radios, and managing them using (downloadable, no programming knowledge is required or expected) scripts and applications in both Microsoft Windows and Linux. It's geared for the casual technophile: if you're comfortable in a conventional home electronics store, then there aren't any projects in this book that would be out of your reach.
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