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Why replace the control box, instead of controlling that? In the article it says: "but the power has to be off for more than a second to have an effect. Not qui

• HeyLaughingBoy 13y ago
  Sure. And there are even simpler ways of accomplishing that. But first you have to know that you can use an Arduino (pretty obvious). Then you need to know that you need a relay and what kind. And you need tools, connectors, enclosures, etc. I agreed with some of what he said: getting started in hardware hacking can be expensive and complicated. But this is a side effect of how people get started these days. Jumping into hardware by building small radios (me at age 11) cost a few dollars and some scrounged parts and I slowly amassed tools and equipment over years. Jumping in by starting with microcontroller development immediately requires more money and equipment.
• smackfu 13y ago
  I think you would still have an artificial 1-second delay on any actions, which would be pretty annoying. I assume this controller acts this weird way since it is supposed to plug into an X-10 system, and the only control in an X-10 system is to turn the power on or off. The obvious way to control it is to turn the power on to raise or lower, but without power, it's hard to maintain state to know whether you want to raise or lower. So instead, it is always powered on, and they use the on-off-on transition to trigger an action. About the typical level of hack for X-10 hardware. If you aren't using an X-10 system, and want to manage the state yourself, all this is pointless, and I can see why someone would want to get rid of it.