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Xmas Lights + X10 + Webcam = Fun
Clark Griswold writes "My brother has outdone himself this year, installing 22,000 Christmas Lights on the outside of his house alone. The real beauty is the X10-Webcam Combo that allows you to turn the lights ON and OFF and see the results of your handiwork. It only works between 6pm and 10pm MST, but it's pretty fun to turn the zones on and off (though I'm not so sure the neighbors like it!)."
Message for <withheld>: The lights are being switched ON and OFF off too fast - try again in a few minutes ...
There are two kinds of people: 1) those that need closure
So naturally, we posted it on Slashdot. Maybe a limit of switching the lights 3 times withing 5 minutes TOTAL FROM ALL USERS would have been better. Very cool though.
PS: Have we ever slashdotted a X10 system before?
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The only way to create a fire-hazard from half-way around the world...Light ON, light OFF, Light ON, Light OFF, Light ON, Light OFF, Light BOOM! --Sparks everywhere...
Why not fork?
We just slashdotted CHRISTMAS. What next, do the editors engineer a DDoS on GOD HIMSELF?
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
Xmas Lights + X10 + Webcam + /. = Lights Out
Yeah... and another webcam could be put up in his house when he gets the electric bill :)
The problem in the world today is communication. Too much communication - Homer Simpson
THANK GOD FOR SLASHDOT! Now the lights are ALL out!
Not only did the server that runs them crash, it took all 22,000 lights with it.
WOOHOO!!!!
-- There is no sig line, only Zuul.
Sorry, I should read a bit more closely. Here's the correct link.
At Drivemeinsane.com you can control christmas lights in his living room, turn on the sprinkler, office lights, and send mesages that are said with a text to speach program.
Hacker Media
A local house burned to the gound when its X10 camera system and 22,000 Christmas lights were Slashdotted.....
My computer said to me .... B.S.O.D. !!
I would really feel terrible if this guy has any epileptic neighbors!
Proud of what I did,
Brother was envious and
slashdoted my lights
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"First things first -- but not necessarily in that order"
-- The Doctor, "Doctor
Stories about wiring up your house for Christmas -- I don't care how you go about doing it -- should not ever hit Slashdot unless it can be seen from space.
My
Limekiller
Great going guys! You Slashdotted Christmas.
stroboscope
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poor neighboors, if they didn't like it before, I wonder how they like the crazy flashes of thousands of slashdotters playing around with the lights
theefer
.. that all depends on how high up this post gets modded :)
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
will get more hits.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
light in his house..he let us (people he knew on a message board) connect to it, and turn it on and off...I wanted to send him threatning messages in morse code..but it didn't switch on and off anywhere near fast enough to do that.
------ Work is so much easier when you don't
Well, we can make that two. This guy has a similar setup in his house, but it's all indoor action. Lights on, Lights off etc. It shouldn't be too hard to kill this guy's server either.
X10 is the name of the protocol. It's just unfortunate that the domain was bought by a fairly evil marketing company.