{"id":86,"date":"2004-02-28T20:17:18","date_gmt":"2004-02-28T20:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewebgal.com\/wordpress\/?p=86"},"modified":"2004-02-28T20:17:18","modified_gmt":"2004-02-28T20:17:18","slug":"x4x-home-automation-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"X4X &#8211; Home Automation, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading more about software for X10 and Macs, and I ran across more information on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shed.com\/\">xTension software<\/a>. I&#8217;d initially passed on their software after a brief test, when I saw it start up the Mac Classic environment &#8211; that seemed like such a step backwards with the beauty of the Mac OS X built  on Unix. But yesterday I got a copy of the beta they are calling  X4X (xtension for OS X), and I installed it on my Mac, and &#8211; its very fine!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI created the master list for the 9 X10 controls that are running in the house, then I created some events for sunset and sunrise (Wakeup Coffeemaker, etc), and after some more reading, I&#8217;ve started creating Applescripts for some of the events that I want to happen.  Very nice stuff &#8211; amazing that its considered beta!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere is a support list and quite a bit of resources for the xtension users &#8211; unless something unexpected and crazy happens, I think this is what I&#8217;ll be running the house on.\n<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;ll write more when I have it more experience with it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading more about software for X10 and Macs, and I ran across more information on the xTension software. I&#8217;d initially passed on their software after a brief test, when I saw it start up the Mac Classic environment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=86\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computertech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}