Mac Home Automation

The Powerlinc (1132U) and the PowerlincCU (1132CU) are X10 powerline interfaces made by smarthome.com.

Though the Powerlinc CU advertises that it can perform limited functions when disconnected from the computer, XTension does not download commands to this device.

The devices use USB interfaces and so do not require a USB Serial Adaptor.

Since the devices fail to implement a unique serial number in their USB implementation XTension can only connect to 1 of them at a time.

We also support the Powerlinc 1132B which is a SERIAL device, requiring a USB-Serial adaptor, but at this time we do not support the Extended Code and Preset Dim commands for this interface.

Note that SmartHome does sell many interfaces called the “PowerLinc”, but most of these are for the Insteon protocol which we do not support.