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Post 2 made on Thursday November 9, 2000 at 22:33
David B
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There is probably something you can have answering your phone to interface with an X10 controller. I'm not aware of it though.

Another thought occured to me though...

When your phone rings it "closes" a circuit to ring the bell. I'll bet you could tap that circuit and wire it to an X10 module (sorry, don't know the model number) that would send an X10 signal out whenever the circuit was closed. If you had an X10 universal module set to the same device number, and arranged to always close the door when activated, then a phone call and one ring would be all that would be needed to make sure the door waqs closed. Any ring of the phone throughout the day would try to close the garage door.

Of course, there may be times when you don't WANT the garage door to close. You'd have to figure out how to have an "override" switch in the system somehow. It could be nasty to have the phone ring while you're taking out the trash via the garage. The garage door would close, and you might get stucjk outdoors without a key. Oh well. ;-(

Just a thought.

Dave


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