Patrick Larkin
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I dabbled a bit in X10 in my old house but didn't have much success. I wrote it off to the oldness of the house. I have a new house now and want to do some X10 automation. I want to start very simple at first: I want my porch and outside garage light to go on and off themselves.
I'm thinking I just need to replace the switches that control those lights with X10 switches and then program the X10 interface to do its job.
So I go to an X10 site, and I see these two switches:
This one is $65
http://smarthome.com/23891.html
This one is $13
http://smarthome.com/2031.html
Do I need the $65 one? I'm confused. I had one of the $13 ones in my old house and it worked for a day and then stopped. I put the old switch back in. I could never tell what the little button at the bottom was for either...
Thanks...
I'm thinking I just need to replace the switches that control those lights with X10 switches and then program the X10 interface to do its job.
So I go to an X10 site, and I see these two switches:
This one is $65
http://smarthome.com/23891.html
This one is $13
http://smarthome.com/2031.html
Do I need the $65 one? I'm confused. I had one of the $13 ones in my old house and it worked for a day and then stopped. I put the old switch back in. I could never tell what the little button at the bottom was for either...
Thanks...