Apple Mac Use applescript to set up Home Automation? (X10)?
Hello! I have recently been playing with applescript and have grown to love it! I currently have morning script set which activates at my morning wake up time – It starts an increasing alarm sound, stops, greets me, tells me the time and date, tells me the morning weather, and then begins to read off my calendar events for the day. When it is finished it launches my morning CNN podcast.
I would like to take this to the next level though and set up some home automation, and have the lights turn on, and possibly my drapes pulled back.
Can anyone tell me if there is any hardware and software that is compatible with applescript? Thank you for any information that can be provided.
Future Plans – have a motion detector go off when I enter my apartment, and activate apple script greeting me and turn on the lights.
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X-10 has a full development package that is considered as 'open source' which will script to which ever command structure or GUI that you choose. If you have the interest, you should be involved in this process. I am currently using FORTH to execute command macros with branches to satisfy arguments supported by sensors with probably as many applications as you can imagine. This is the pathway recommend you follow, if not by your own development, by some of the other contributors that are part of this project.
You will need one of the two interfaces they recommend in order to communicate on the correct carrier frequencies but the code interpretations can be driven by any direct command codes or extensible macros. I encourage you to get on the project and learn the processes.
Good luck.