Can a 1982 Commodore 64 control a modern Smart Home? 📹quickbytes (4/1/24)
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Fake video, you actually got the c64 to ai generate this fake video.
Awesome episode :-) Laughed a lot ! But you know, somewhere, someone is probably working on a C64 smarthome-controller...
is any of this video real? The connecting of the wifi to smartthings seemed a little fishy.
@@LordOrwell Tell me you haven't watched the whole video without actually telling me ;)
“They’ve seen all my expressions when you’re talking” 😂
"Nobody cares about Knight Rider" lol. Oh my thank you for that - I haven't laughed that hard in a long time!
You're very welcome heheheh
😂😂😂 I couldn't stop laughing when Ladyfractic said "they've all seen my expressions on the show" 😂😂😂 yes, yes we have, priceless! God I love your show.
Your acting was so natural and the content mirrored real life conversations I've personally experienced. Well done guys cause you got me! I kinda forgot about what date it was. :)
Yessss!
Great quickbytes Fractic Family thank you for including us into your lives.
Nice. In version 2.0 (release date April 1st 2025) you should integrate it with Little Computer People and ask them to walk around their virtual house controlling your real house.
lol I loved the ending! My friend and I made one in 1989 using the user port and 16 pins and relays to switch 16 devices on or off. The one I offered to send you is the one that without the relay board and a new implementation. The teacher wasn’t really all that impressed switching on and off lights from a 500 guilder computer. The independent adjudicator for the oral exam was elated, she’d never seen a computer turn on a TV, a preset coffee machine and mechanical microwave before. Our teacher was like: “how can you justify a 500 guilder computer over a 20 guilder mechanical timer?! 😂 But doing this using a pi pico or ESP32 talking to a Philips hue (the only one I know) is trivial. In fact I had a raspberry pi with a 433MHz receiver listen to the Bluetooth doorbell when it rang it would turn on the hall lights and play an MP3 of a dog barking. Since I don’t have a puppy fractic I had to digitize one 😂
Reminds me of the Electric Dreams movie where he was plugging up all the devices in the house and the computer became his worst nightmare later😂😅
LOL, I love that movie. It's a classic.
That movie was just released for free on KZhead a few weeks ago. So sad though Lenny Von Dohlen who played Miles passed away.
I love how there are still things being developed for the C64 to this date.
I'm gonna watch this on my old crt tv in my retro living room :D
Oh, dang, you got me 5 years in a row now. Well done. I just don't learn.
Hahaha brilliant!
I actually thought they were having a barny in the car.. haha
@@999jay999 So did I lol
laughed so hard at "turn the tap off" at the very end
Great to hear that you are a smart home fan! X10 and Commodore are the legends!
I appreciate the dedication of adding the real Hi8 camcorder footage of the mirror back into Rarevision so that it looks like it matches the edge distortion. It’s a nice touch.
Great vid guys great April fools too. 😂😂😂
Nooooo, really?
April floods ...
That was the best april fools joke so far today 😂
I seem to recall from the demo and tutorial on the C128 that it could also be programmed to do simple smart home tasks like dimming the lights, shut off water or power at certain hours. Was there a version of this controller specifically for the 128? Maybe you could try that as well.
He doesn’t actually have any version. The video filter is for pretending those are his hands instead of borrowed footage. The original source is in the description. Give it a watch! :)
@@emmettturner9452 I knew the flooding was just an effect but holy jeez, that's commitment to the bit! That said, I wasn't kidding when I said the C128 advertised it could be made to do some of these tasks. With the proper hardware and control devices, I would think.
@@sutorippuwebmaster8783 that’s really cool, especially if it’s for more than just C64 mode on a C128. :)
@@emmettturner9452 There's a section in the tutorial disks that came with the 128 that briefly touches on it. That, you had to run in 128 mode so I'm guessing that was the intent? I'm unsure as I never tried it.
"😢 This is going to make some great repair videos" 😂😂😂
you got me until the end (the flood scene)! 🤦🤣
I started to build an I/O board for my ZX-81 back in the day. Was all a bit ahead of the times for me (especially at that age).
those were such the upgrade. two different lamps! Even working at the Radio Shack I couldn't get much more than a half dozen going. Now to designate a box to 'found x10 controls'
Omg I didn’t even think that this might be an April fools joke. Sure hope it was 😅
The printout was bang on - inc the wobbly diagram which was of it's time however it would've been a scanned document from some internet archive so would be slightly miss-aligned. The project is quite plausible though even on an old C64 or any 8 bit.
Many Thanks for putting my nostalgic photo on your last retro show 36. Wasn't expecting to be on your show so soon :) It was my Schneider EuroPc with all the stuff around. I was about to play Leisure Suit Larry 1 on it, but it's hard to see on the photo. I tried to fax you, but it get's me a fax signaling error, weird... Greetings, Alain (André) Draut from Luxembourg
Oh that was a cool pic! Was it called Amstrad in other countries I wonder? Sorry to hear about the fax error. Faxes have been coming in, but there are incompatibilities out there and our machine doesn't have ECM so sometimes after a fax is received it gives an error. What were you sending and I'll let you know if it arrived. Thanks for the support!!
@@RetroRecipesthis Computer was a IBM compatible that came only out as Schneider, later there was the Schneider EuroPC II. It was the first PC that was completely built under the keyboard, an external 20 Mb hard disc was optional and cost as much as the computer itself. it had one small expansion slot for very short cards. Schneider and Amstrad had small cooperations like the CPC 464 and 6128, but later they went separate ways. I tried to fax via an iphone App, could also be the app that isn't working correctly.
That'll drain the finances and sink the budget.....happy April :)
Spotted this when you started talking about, how you'd code a new firmware 😂 That car sketch was hilarious 🤩
April Fools with you is one of the best!
I had one of those tape recorders with I was little, then a Walkman, I always wanted a mini tape recorder, you retro videos are being me back, thanks
Looking forward to the repair videos. That will be great!
I watched it with my wife and even though we knew it was an April Fools video from the start, the funny twist was worth it. Perfect one to watch with her. I made one as well, also rather long at 20 minutes, with an interesting twist at the end (I do them yearly inspired by yours).
That's so nice to hear - I'll check it out
"sometimes called the PowerHouse." 🤦🤣 All joking aside, I _really_ wish I'd got over my hangups and made my Atari 130XE control my curtains & lights when I was 15, and then made a remote to control it. I knew everything I needed to. I never thought of the graphical view though! XD
"Look that's where they filmed Knight Rider"
I have not laughed so hard at one of your videos in a long time. Well done!
I bet you see knight rider locations every journey! The Amstrad had some power line control boxes , not sure how well they worked !
Fooled me good right up to the flood animation. 😂❤
Mwahahah exactly as planned!
Me too! I started suspecting during the argument, but Ladyfractics acting was so convincing, I thought maybe it was true. The submersion filter was a dead giveaway, though...
😂 You two should be professional actors. 😂😂
Oh, the irony 🤣
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I'm thinking maybe some of the people reading this do not know they are indeed professional actors.
you had me fooled up until the fake water. awesome vid. happy april fools day guys
Incredible feature for that time :)
Lady Fractic should have called you a "fool" instead of "idiot" lol
Ohhhh... I get it now!
Oh how well done this is, the best April Fools so far! :)
I have April first circled on my calendar so I don't miss your video, a nice way to start the month, cheerios!!!!
You fooled me for a moment in the car but two things gave it away: 1) You have already said you have a leak sensor that can switch off the mains as well as it controlled on your phone which you can do remotely. 2) the stock baby crying sound effect.
Great production values as always. For a fool, that is.
What did you call me?!?! ;)
OH man! you had me fooled right up to when you showed the studio and the fake water, but props to you this was a good one :D
Gosh i really wish something like this to exist. Hooking a c64 into homeassistant for controlling stuff and looking at data would be amazing
It does exist. Check the description for a link to the source video. The video filter lets Peri pretend they are his hands. :)
Oh that was beautiful.
Brilliant. Well done! And hello from Scotland!
My mind is blown! What can't you do with this technology!
X10 wasn't common in Australia but I did briefly consider getting some in the early aughts. I still have a vintage Clipsal HomeMinder home automation system installed and running at my home. It has an X10 interface.
You are an endless dwell of ideas :)
My constant struggle is to use up all the ideas on the list but it keeps getting longer...
Some day, I'll catch on to these early. But today is not that day
LOL
Well done, if everyone put in this kind of effort most april fools would be a lot more fun!
The thing about most sinks and bathtub is they have an overflow hole on the top to prevent this exact problem from happening.
And we can even see the overflow hole in the video.
Brilliant video and I was worried seeing you guys arguing until the penny dropped 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Being Retro did you make the flooded water with the Video Toaster on your Amiga?
I've been waiting for this for a few months now :)
That last line about the repair videos had me rolling...real KZheadrs turning tragedy into content. I love it! ;-)
Right on the 👃
Brilliant - for a moment there I thought she was really kicking your bottom. Excellent April Fools!
I always wanted a color computer with the home automation as a high school kid back in the late 80's. This is so cool @perifractic!!
Well on the flip side you'll have a TON of repair videos!
So did the idea for the skit come before or after the idea for the Commodore 64 smart house system? Looking back, the whole thing could of been a set up for the ending...lol. Very well done. The baby crying was hilarious b/c you ignored it so thoroughly. Bravo Fractic Family!!
This is like a Curb episode LOL
I completely fell for it. 🤣
I used to have a C64 back in 1984. Never got into the I/O part of it before I went to Apple IIe. This is cool stuff........grin
5 minutes in and wondering about how much cable you'd need when i realised the date........nearly got me 😛
Well, X-10 for Commodore 64 part was real… even though it was borrowed from someone else (see “Source” description).
You know this isn’t too far fetched.. you got to do this for real now 😂
Thank you....most informative....forgot the day today.
Your April Fools vids are getting exponentially good.
cheers on the indoor pool
Always wanted one
Wait, the house flood was a prank, but was the home automation project with the C64 a prank, too?
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Very cool! I am curious as to how you are time base correcting with that old cam? In later shots, the v-sync is obviously locked somehow.
It’s part of the joke. He doesn’t actually have the X-10 equipment and needed to mask borrowed footage to pretend it was his hands.
Haha, Keeping Up With the Commodore is "on the radio" in your car, nice! And then all the fake water in the studio, ha! Nice video for today; first day of April is always a bit strange, isn't it?
We listen to it all the time on loop in the car!
@@RetroRecipes: Haha, yeah, sure! 😉🤣
x10 is ongoing and it also is one of the few smart home systems that is hack proof.
It’s not hack proof; as long as you’re on the same transformer; such as in a neighboring house, or another apartment in the same building you have full control as X-10 has no security. All you have to do is turn the setting dial to the right letter to match the home, which was easy via trial and error. I had it in my home growing up and I tested this out myself. My parents were out of town and I was staying at a neighbor’s house. My dad gave me the X-10 controller that normally sat on his bedside table, which I plugged into the wall socket at the neighbor’s, so I could be a cheep security system by turning the indoor and outdoor light on and off from the neighbors as if someone was home. It worked flawlessly and I thought it was one of the most amazing things ever.
While I'm watching this late and didn't see the comments beforehand, what immediately got me after I saw the date in the title/date released was how Maniac Mansion the interface looked, combined with you not pressing any key to run the "successful" faucet/tap shutoff when the camera was dogsitting Puppyfractic (you unfortunately missed the keyboard XP ). The actual concept of a C64 sending a message to a device (probably a Pi or Arduino/Atmega on a serial or parallel connection rather than plugged into the cartridge port) that sends to a local smart home controller over wifi or bluetooth sounds groovy, though.
Nice. Even i fear it is currently only an April fool, i guess a few guys are able to make this working in real life.
Nicely done.👍
You forgot to mention the light pen input that you can use in place of a joystick
Oh no! Did our cartridge survive?? 🤣
Thankfully it floated to the ceiling and got stuck on the fan where it dried itself
Ah flooding and non stop water everywhere, peri must be feeling home sick for life here in england 😂
Hahaha
"Darling", looks to the dog... :P The final scene looked like a scene from "Backrooms" :)
You nearly got me until 2:42 - but really good Video by the way 😆😂😂
April Fools day... Damn it, just realised!! Got me well good!
Great video - great idea for this day of the year. I had a full X-10 setup on my Coco in 1984 as a kid - I recognized the gear on the thumbnail so was hooked immediately. You silly Brits... A tap is what you get beer out of... And, how can mains mean both electric and water? ;-)
That water effect was a little too artificial to convince me. However, a very entertaining video that reminded me of the Some Mother's Do 'Ave Em smart home episode, which I know both you and Ladyfractic enjoy. Great job Perifractic. Ooer, I just noticed that the spelling check function which doesn't know the word Ladyfractic offers the suggested word Practicality. How remarkably apt.
Frank Spencer would've ended up under the water screaming Oooh Betty I did a whoopsie in the water!
@@RetroRecipes Well, he certainly would have "had a bit of trouble". If he screamed that while under the water it would sound like blub,blub,blub as the air bubbles reached the service and he was chases by a brown floating thing. Have you ever noticed that the song Frank Spencer sings to his daughter to send her to sleep has the same melody that Last of the Summer Wine has as it's theme? BTW I couldn't comment on the last RRetroshow as you appear to have paused the comments. I hope you haven't had more problem comments posted on your feed.
Should’ve had a bunch of boxes, manuals, and registration cards all sloshing around. ;)
Love watching your videos Perry, I have a lot in common with you, I’m the same age, from London & I had a c64 !
Always suspicious of you when you post videos on this date! We got to see another part of the studio room!
I was going to start a gofundme and then remembered its April Fools
If that was an April fools... I was genuinely worried and now demand therapy.
What time it is @ the pacific?
I like PCB way.x
Happy Fools Day from Menorca (Balearic Islands, Spain). In Menorca thanks to the British occupation for almost 100 years we celebrate 1st of April as British did, with jokes and pranks. Fools Day is named "Dia d'Enganar" (written in Cathalan)
Not this year my friend, not this year....... Best wishes yo you all
Still have lots of x10 stuff including the funny-named USB dongle thing but home is 100% zigbee now, managed through Home Assistant. Had about 60 devices on SmartThings controlled by a 10k line script then Samsung suddenly discontinued support - being cloud-based, most of my devices became door stops.
No way? Can’t believe you had all that tech that became redundant.
Did you think of this idea because you found a water effect in your editing software?! Great April Fool's though!!
Very relaxing.x
HEY wait a min ..... something is not right...... let me just think a moment........ 3 hours later....... Oh i see 🤣😂🤣. Great stuff as always and ofc have a great week.
An yes that tune is now back in my head....
Ha you ‘fixed’ the picture for the Ad 😂
I cant get my C64 to turn my bed on. Does the bed need a software patch.
I still have a box labeled X10 with my PowerHouse controller and various plugs. Why can't I manage to throw them away?