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Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 12:20:05 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️
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@eichin @otte_homan @kenshirriff yikes. Analog video over 2.4ghz? They must have destroyed the bandwidth of wifi devices!

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- Mark Eichin (eichin@mastodon.mit.edu)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 12:20:06 JST Mark Eichin
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  - Ken Shirriff
  - Otte Homan - remember Geordie
  @otte_homan @kenshirriff @foone Heh, I maintained one of the debian packages for driving these frobs for a while back in the day. They also had cheap wireless cameras - which were (as far as I could tell) analog 2.4ghz FM, completely destroying my house wifi (in the era of the Apple Airport and the Orinoco PCMCIA cards.)
  (These days I do this kind of thing with Shelly Plugs and BLE - cheaper *and* CE certified...)
  
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- Otte Homan - remember Geordie (otte_homan@theblower.au)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 12:20:07 JST Otte Homan - remember Geordie
  - Ken Shirriff
  @kenshirriff @foone but ... WIRELESS? In the year of the Lord 2000 ? Amazing! The antenna seems to hint at something in the 100 to 400MHz range (radio, teevee). I wonder what the protocol looked like. #AT commands in plaintext?
  Amazingly, the X10 website is still alive, and apparently they've heard that USB is also a thing now.
  https://www.x10.com/products/cm17a
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  1. CM17A FireCracker Computer Interface Module
    
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