On Mon 30 May 2022 at 11:00:50 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-05-30 at 10:49, gene heskett wrote: > > > I have been useing it, or writing its functions to talk to a cm-11a > > interface to all the X10 modules for remoting and automating things > > about the house, since back in the 80's. Suffering from 2, 2T seagate > > failures in the last 2 months, the rebuild of a workiing system and > > all its backups has been slow. I *think* I still have a working > > CM-11a, but its recently come to my attention that there is now an > > arduino kit to emulate the CM-11a. That removes the lack of a > > computer to line power interface that for some unk reason, has not > > been available from X10 for about 20 years now. We can now make our > > own. > > > > So I issued a 'sudo apt install heyu", only to have apt report it > > couldn't find such a critter. > > > > Why is that? > > A bit of Googling finds https://sources.debian.org/src/heyu/ , which in > turn (via the version-specific sub-pages) finds > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/heyu , which shows that this *was* in > Debian a long time ago; specifically, it was part of slink and potato, > and the last version included was both x86-only and packaged back in 2001. > > I've looked for packages.debian.org information on it, but found nothing.
But grepping x10 does bring up something called bottlerocket. Be aware that googling throws up a lot of other "bottlerocket"s. Package: bottlerocket Description-en: Utility to control X10 Firecracker devices for home automation A command-line utility to interact with the Firecracker version of X10's home control devices (wireless home automation to control lights, cameras, appliances via a small transmitter that plugs into the standard RS-232 serial port of a computer). . Also included is rocket launcher, a graphical frontend to bottlerocket. If you want this functionality you should have wish (tk8.3 or tk8.4 - the Tcl/Tk interpreter) installed. The pages on the heyu website appear to be rather ancient. There are people active, eg for the Pi: https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=327319 Cheers, David.
