About the TRIAC idea, at one hand that sounds as a good idea but I can recall a video from a guy trying to control mains with triacs which worked as hoped except for the large heatsink he needed to stop the triac's from breaking after some high heat dissipation.
Have my memory corrupted this info or is some heat dissipation expected in a application turning mains voltages on/off?
That is key to this since a heatsink is out of the question in my current concept.
I do have time but I lack $$$ but as soon as that situation improves I have a lot of small perhaps often unnecessary circuits to upgrade my apartment with, I want to implement my design for automated "window sun blocker things..."(Can't find English word for it
roll up/down using some powerful stepper motors, a complete home-security alarm system which can be monitored and controlled through SMS or phone call followed by key-presses on the phone dial buttons. And I have a few more "upgrades" or fun stuff to do.
I have read about X10 on some forum but all I had gathered was that it was some sort of communication protocol and I had thought it to be a alternative to wifi, but sending information through pulses on the mains wire sound very funky and I can't resist such a concept, but could not those pulses be upsetting to other devices on the line?
Do you think the make it through bridge rectifiers?
In any case I will read up on it as soon as I finish this post.
Regards