X10.com/X10 WTI imports product from the manufacturing plant owned by their parent company (X10 Ltd.) in China by way of Hong Kong to the Eastern US distribution center in New Jersey. From there it is sent to the Canadian distribution center in Mississauga, ON and Western US warehouse in North Las Vegas.
This is to eliminate customs on orders going to Canada, but they do charge a $10US flat shipping rate on all Canadian orders to help absorb the cost of the container being sent from NJ to ON, according the the explanation given to me by the Customer Support/Sales manager who was also formerly the manager of the Las Vegas distribution center.
I was employed by X10.com for some two years in their "Customer Support" department at the Tukwila/Kent, WA headquarters as both a rep and a supervisor and had to become quite familiar with this process.
The serial protocols for controlling both the CM17A FireCracker wireless transmitter (and the MR26A wireless receiver) and the CM11A ActiveHome Power-Line Carrier transmitter are available from their website, as well as documentation for the X10 protocol theory in general.(http://www.x10.com/support/support_manual s.htm -- bottom of the page)
The CM17A protocol is so simple, its apparently not uncommon to fire single commands from a shell prompt or simple script.
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X10.com/X10 WTI imports product from the manufacturing plant owned by their parent company (X10 Ltd.) in China by way of Hong Kong to the Eastern US distribution center in New Jersey. From there it is sent to the Canadian distribution center in Mississauga, ON and Western US warehouse in North Las Vegas.
This is to eliminate customs on orders going to Canada, but they do charge a $10US flat shipping rate on all Canadian orders to help absorb the cost of the container being sent from NJ to ON, according the the explanation given to me by the Customer Support/Sales manager who was also formerly the manager of the Las Vegas distribution center.
I was employed by X10.com for some two years in their "Customer Support" department at the Tukwila/Kent, WA headquarters as both a rep and a supervisor and had to become quite familiar with this process.
The serial protocols for controlling both the CM17A FireCracker wireless transmitter (and the MR26A wireless receiver) and the CM11A ActiveHome Power-Line Carrier transmitter are available from their website, as well as documentation for the X10 protocol theory in general.(http://www.x10.com/support/support_manual s.htm -- bottom of the page)
The CM17A protocol is so simple, its apparently not uncommon to fire single commands from a shell prompt or simple script.