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authorAndreas Schulz <ats@FreeBSD.org>1994-06-05 16:21:49 +0000
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+.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993 Eugene W. Stark
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
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+.\"
+.Th XTEN 8 "30 Oct 1993"
+.Dd Oct 30, 1993
+.Dt TW 4
+.Os BSD FreeBSD
+.Sh NAME
+tw \- TW-523 X-10 device driver
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm Tw
+is the driver for the TW-523 power line interface, for use with X-10 home
+control products. The X-10 protocol is compatible with a number of home
+control systems, including Radio Shack ``Plug 'n Power(tm)'' and
+Stanley ``Lightmaker(tm).''
+.Pp
+The driver supports
+.Fn read
+.Fn write
+and
+.Fn select
+system calls.
+The driver allows multiple processes to read and write simultaneously,
+but there is probably not much sense in having more than one reader or more
+than one writer at a time, and in fact there may currently be a race
+condition in the driver if two processes try to transmit simultaneously
+(due to unsynchronized access to the sc_pkt structure in tw_sc).
+.Pp
+Transmission is done by calling
+.Fn write
+to send three byte packets of data.
+The first byte contains a four bit house code (0=A to 15=P). The second byte
+contains a five bit unit/key code (0=unit 1 to 15=unit 16, 16=All Units Off
+to 31 = Status Request). The third byte specifies the number of times the
+packet is to be transmitted without any gaps between successive transmissions.
+Normally this is 2, as per the X-10 documentation, but sometimes (e.g. for
+bright and dim codes) it can be another value. Each call to
+.Fn write
+can specify
+an arbitrary number of data bytes, but at most one packet will actually be
+processed in any call. Any incomplete packet is buffered until a subsequent
+call to
+.Fn write
+provides data to complete it. Successive calls to
+.Fn write
+leave a three-cycle gap between transmissions, per the X-10 documentation.
+The driver transmits each bit only once per half cycle, not three times as
+the X-10 documentation states, because the TW523 only provides sync on
+each power line zero crossing. So, the driver will probably not work
+properly if you have three-phase service. Most residences use a two-wire
+system, for which the driver does work.
+.Pp
+Reception is done using
+.Fn read
+The driver produces a series of three
+character packets. In each packet, the first character consists of flags,
+the second character is a four bit house code (0-15), and the third character
+is a five bit key/function code (0-31). The flags are the following:
+.Bl -diag
+.It
+#define TW_RCV_LOCAL 1 /* The packet arrived during a local transmission */
+.It
+#define TW_RCV_ERROR 2 /* An invalid/corrupted packet was received */
+.El
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn select
+system call can be used in the usual way to determine if there
+is data ready for reading.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Bl -diag
+.It
+.Xr xten 1
+.It
+.Xr xtend 8
+.It
+TW-523 documentation from X-10 Inc.
+.El
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width /dev/tw
+.It Pa /dev/tw?
+the TW523 special file
+.El
+.Sh AUTHOR
+Eugene W. Stark (stark@cs.sunysb.edu)