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Users / Re: Nvidia cards

« on: May 17, 2008, 06:18:32 pm »

Hi
I have an nvidia 7300 gt and I cant seem to get past UI1?  I tried with my onboard card and dito.....is it a problem with Open GL?

Any suggestions of how i can get this to work?

cheers
Nick

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Developers / Re: NEW Threaded support for RUBY.

« on: April 20, 2008, 09:23:46 pm »

ddamron,
any updates on your workings for the plc-bus driver?
cheers

Nlb

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Developers / Re: NEW Threaded support for RUBY.

« on: January 31, 2008, 10:42:42 am »

Dan,
thanks for the info - cleared some things up and no worries, this is not a downer,just an obstacle.

To you knowledge, would it be possible to mix two home automation protocols, e.g. using plcbus for all the lights, etc... and zwave for motion detectors and cameras? and still be able to control them through the same MCE interface?

Nick

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Developers / Re: NEW Threaded support for RUBY.

« on: January 29, 2008, 11:17:28 am »

Well I would like to get into creating some controllers for my house automation myself.
I like PLCBUS but it seems that there is nothing in Belgium and the closest i found and viable is Hong Kong.  So supply is going to be a bit tough.  I figured I could start creating basic controllers and interface these with LinuxMCE through X10 (since stamp and X10 are compatible) but then reviewing x10 pros and cons, its seems that PLCBUS is more compatible for europe and hows better performances.  The only thing is how to get Stamp and plcbus to interact. Im kinda new to electronics so im kinda lost...

Any ideas / hints?
Is it even really worth it to try and control a stamp controller through plcbus?

cheers

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Developers / Re: NEW Threaded support for RUBY.

« on: January 28, 2008, 05:18:14 pm »

Dan,

Stupid question:
To your knowledge is possible to develop a Basic Stamp and control it via the PLCBUS controller?

cheers
Nick

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Developers / Home automation and Stamps

« on: January 28, 2008, 11:53:24 am »

Hi,
I am currently trying to test run MCE and looking into developing my own home automation hardware.  I am not sure which hardware to go with (z wave, x10, plc bus) since I live in europe (belgium).  I therefore decided to go my own way and try programming my own bs2 microcontroller stamps.  However does anyone know how I can get my microcontrollers to communicate with MCE and on which protocol?

More concretly, Im looking to create my own microcontrollers (light control, alarm system, etc...) using stamps and communicate to it via linux MCE using PLCBus if possible.  Any hints?

Thanks

NLB