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BSR/X10 Command Console

The first home-automation controller: a wedge of plastic whose rotary house-code dial and unit button grid command your whole house over the power line

Home AutomationInputPowerline ControlPhysicalConsumer
BSR/X10 Command Console archival photograph

Overview

Deep dive

Media

X10 controllers, including the original BSR command console
X10 controllers, including the original BSR command console (bottom right) with its rotary house-code dial and unit button grid. CC BY 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons.
X10 device modules
X10 device modules — each wears its house/unit address on a physical dial. CC BY 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia — X10 (industry standard)
  2. Rye, Dave (1999) 'My Life at X10' — AV and Automation Industry eMagazine
  3. The history of X10 — planet.nl