How do control X10 systems with a linux system

Post by **I-1** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:02 pm

Hi,

I received my CM11 today.
It was shipped with Active Home (Windows based piece of software)
I installed the software and tested it ... and it worked fine.

I was wondering if there are also Linux based software arround to do the same stuff you can do with Active Home.

- I want to control my AM12 & LM12 with my Linux PC.
- I also want to set up an apache server on that PC with an MySQL database and control my devices trough my PHP webpage

Maybe you have some tips for me

Thanks in advance,
I-1

Post by **Bwired** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:47 pm

Hi I-1
Check this topic here is a lot of domotica home automation software listed. You find also some Linux stuff.
http://www.domoticaforum.eu/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=29
regards Pieter

Post by **Willem4ever** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:10 pm

I believe it is not listed, so I mention it here. I'm using HomeDaemon it is written for FreeBSD. You have to make a small modification to make it work under Linux. Since you get the source you could modify it to tailor your needs. Drop me an email and I email you the patched version.

Cheers, Willem.

Post by **MindBender** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:05 pm

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by I-1 
It was shipped with Active Home (Windows based piece of software)
I installed the software and tested it ... and it worked fine.
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It works barely, not fine. As a manufacturer I would be embarrased for this piece of cr*p, but at least it's not defective

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I was wondering if there are also Linux based software arround to do the same stuff you can do with Active Home.
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Actually, I'm working on that right now. For power consumption reasons I bought myself an EPIA M9000 mainboard (with soldered-on C7 processor @933MHz). It's not as beefy as the servers most people in this group are using, but it's consumption averages down to 13 Watts. A Watt/Year costs 1.89 Euro nowadays, so a 100 Watt server would boost your electricity bill by 189 Euro per year. To compensate for the lack of processing power I will be using Linux. After all, all the systems has to do is to run a webserver and to send/receive a couple of X10 commands. I'm don't think I will make a freely configurable user application. Instead I will probably hard-code all my devices' behaviour because it's much quicker to implement and because it's a 1-off solution. I can keep you posted if you want. 
By the way, I'll be using a 8GiB CompactFlash card as a hard disk to save even more power.

Post by **I-1** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:58 pm

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Actually, I'm working on that right now. For power consumption reasons I bought myself an EPIA M9000 mainboard (with soldered-on C7 processor @933MHz). It's not as beefy as the servers most people in this group are using, but it's consumption averages down to 13 Watts. A Watt/Year costs 1.89 Euro nowadays, so a 100 Watt server would boost your electricity bill by 189 Euro per year. To compensate for the lack of processing power I will be using Linux. After all, all the systems has to do is to run a webserver and to send/receive a couple of X10 commands. I'm don't think I will make a freely configurable user application. Instead I will probably hard-code all my devices' behaviour because it's much quicker to implement and because it's a 1-off solution. I can keep you posted if you want.

By the way, I'll be using a 8GiB CompactFlash card as a hard disk to save even more power.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

I will be using a Vmware to get everything working.
I am on my way now ...