[Coco] The CM17A "FireCracker" does work on the Coco

[Sean]

Oh neat, I bought one of those many years ago and played around with it on
the PC.  Never thought of trying it with a CoCo!

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 7:27 PM, K. Pruitt <pruittk at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> A few nights ago I was thinking about trying out Marty Goodman's DC Modem
> conversion to make it in to a host for an X10 CM17A Firecracker module.
> Well it dawned on me that I had a perfectly good RS232 pack sitting here
> doing nothing, so I ordered myself a  DB25 to DB9 adapter which arrived
> today, and just a short while later. I had it working.  It can be accessed
> by simple basic pokes which of course means writing software for it for use
> under OS-9 is not going to be an issue and for those folks who like DECB
> they can use it without even using assembly.
>
> So if anybody else would like to play around with remote control of lamps
> and such, the inexpensive firecracker (CM17A) does work on our cocos via
> the RS232 pack.
>
> All I have written now is a little Basic "proof of concept" program that
> turns on unit 1 on house A.  I'll be doing a command line utility for OS-9
> that's will be a bit more full featured and useful.
>
> The firecracker should work on the drivewire cable as well..  But I'm not
> so sure how much drivewire would like the RTS and DTR signals being messed
> with so I'll stick with the RS232 pack.
>
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