Control X10 devices with Home Assistant

Hardware
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Hello all,

after 3-4 hours of reading and testing, I decided to ask for help :slight_smile:
i have several X10 devices (most of them dimmable), and a CM11 serial to X10 adapter.
I run HA in a VM under Proxmox, i also use a USB2Serial adapter, Proxmox recognizes this and forwards it to HA.

2.768344] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0403, idProduct=6001, bcdDevice= 2.00
[    2.773842] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[    2.779176] usb 2-1: Product: USB <-> Serial
[    2.782772] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: FTDI
[    2.785840] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 12345678
[    7.176779] usbcore: registered new interface driver ftdi_sio
[    7.201495] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for FTDI USB Serial Device
[    7.251128] usb 2-1: Detected FT8U232AM
[    7.270847] usb 2-1: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0

this is where i stuck.
HEYU seems to be installed, but how can i configure the port, etc ?

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well, i’m very close…

first of all, i added the following lines to my configuration.yaml
keep in mind that the device is configured as g1

light:
  - platform: x10
    devices:
      - id: g1
        name: Guest Room

then i used the terminal to issue the following commands:

apk add --update alpine-sdk
wget -O heyu.zip https://codeload.github.com/HeyuX10Automation/heyu/zip/v2.10.3
unzip heyu.zip
cd heyu-2.10.3
./Configure darwin && make
mkdir /var/tmp/heyu
mkdir /etc/heyu
# Change this to specify your CM11A or CM17A TTY
echo "TTY /dev/ttyUSB0" > /etc/heyu/x10.conf
sudo make install

now you have heyu working… you can use these commands:

#get the info
heyu info
#turn on the light on g1
heyu on g1 
#turn off the light on g1
heyu off g1

i have a CM11 (not marked as A). Response is not very fast…
its slower in turning off the light.

my problem now, is how to add this to Lovelace…

any help would be appreciated…

3

hahaha… i made all these and after a reboot, everything is gone…
:frowning:

4

i finally installed Home Assistant Supervised.
it was much more easier to compile and install Heyu.

cd /usr/local/src/
apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/HeyuX10Automation/heyu.git
apt-get install build-essential
cd heyu
./Configure.sh
make
make install
heyu info

added heyu to my crontab file, to start with the system…

@reboot /usr/local/bin/heyu start

now i can turn on/off lights from the command line…

heyu info
heyu on g1

my problem is still how can i intergrate this with Home Assistant…
anyone help ?

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following this. hope someone can shed a light :slight_smile:

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