<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">you may be better off getting a pic development board...<br><br>:-)<br><br>yum<br><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 2/4/09, Rick Moynihan <i>&lt;rick.moynihan@gmail.com&gt;</i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Rick Moynihan &lt;rick.moynihan@gmail.com&gt;<br>Subject: Re: [dundee] Network controlled kettle?<br>To: "Tayside Linux User Group" &lt;dundee@lists.lug.org.uk&gt;<br>Date: Thursday, 2 April, 2009, 2:51 PM<br><br><pre>2009/4/2 christopher wyllie &lt;cgwyllie@googlemail.com&gt;:<br>&gt; Fair enough, thanks. Yes I did consider wiring the kettle always on but<br>&gt; hadn't thought about units to control the mains. That looks<br>interesting.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Thanks. Anyone got any more suggestions?<br>&gt;<br><br>Have you looked into X10?  To my knowledge X10 it's long been
 the<br>predominant standard for 'affordable' home automation.  I've never<br>used it myself though, so can't comment:<br><br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X10_(industry_standard)<br><br>R.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk  http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>