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<blockquote data-quote="Kaoh" data-source="post: 425234" data-attributes="member: 24754">Hi cybergeek,X10 is a protocol that uses your existing powerlines to communicate. That means that if you replace your light switches and other appliences with X10 enabled devices they will be able to communicate over the powerlines together. I do not know if there are 120 volt devices available, but there are for 220/230 etc.Once you have that working you can connect a PC to the powerline using a usb device called the CM11 (there are others) and you will be able to control your devices using this system. Then you can use a xAP to X10 application (see first post) to let all you computers on your LAN control the devices over this one CM11 device. Once that is working you can use this plugin to control your devices from MediaPortal with a nice GUI.@others:I moved my upcoming xAP apps to the xFx v2.1 framework like Patrick did in his lats version. I did &quot;fix&quot; this framework into a new version 2.2 since it had some design flaws I could not live with.I will spend some time to see if I can get the last version of Patrick to work with my 2.2 version. So maybe I can still salvage this plugin.All apps using this 2.1 and all older versions have the problem that they do not properly close the listening connection they opened, thanks to .net it still get released when the thread is closed. But in the case where the MP setup keeps running but does stop the plugin this would result in the plugin only working once.I also changed the way the framework detects free available ports. They used a horrible loop to find a port they do not get an exception on. I changed that to the proper windows way, I now let windows give me a free available port.I tested my changes with several xfx 1.x framework apps and some xfx 2.1 framework apps and they seem to work fine together with my new apps.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kaoh, post: 425234, member: 24754"] Hi cybergeek, X10 is a protocol that uses your existing powerlines to communicate. That means that if you replace your light switches and other appliences with X10 enabled devices they will be able to communicate over the powerlines together. I do not know if there are 120 volt devices available, but there are for 220/230 etc. Once you have that working you can connect a PC to the powerline using a usb device called the CM11 (there are others) and you will be able to control your devices using this system. Then you can use a xAP to X10 application (see first post) to let all you computers on your LAN control the devices over this one CM11 device. Once that is working you can use this plugin to control your devices from MediaPortal with a nice GUI. @others: I moved my upcoming xAP apps to the xFx v2.1 framework like Patrick did in his lats version. I did "fix" this framework into a new version 2.2 since it had some design flaws I could not live with. I will spend some time to see if I can get the last version of Patrick to work with my 2.2 version. So maybe I can still salvage this plugin. All apps using this 2.1 and all older versions have the problem that they do not properly close the listening connection they opened, thanks to .net it still get released when the thread is closed. But in the case where the MP setup keeps running but does stop the plugin this would result in the plugin only working once. I also changed the way the framework detects free available ports. They used a horrible loop to find a port they do not get an exception on. I changed that to the proper windows way, I now let windows give me a free available port. I tested my changes with several xfx 1.x framework apps and some xfx 2.1 framework apps and they seem to work fine together with my new apps. [/QUOTE]

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