Hassio with mochad Installation

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi I am new to Hass.io running on RPi3 and the latest HA 0.77 and I am trying to setup mochad using CM19 USB adapter that is connected to the RPi. I added the mochad interface and added a couple of switches to the configuration file. Here is the snippet below

# X10 Controller
mochad:
  host: 127.0.0.1
  port: 1099

X10 switches

switch:

platform: mochad
devices:
    address: a1
    name: light
    comm_type: rf
    address: a2
    name: fan
    comm_type: rf

Where I run this configuration in Hass.io, I don’t the LED on CM19 flashing when I send the commands. For debugging I created a Hassbian version and installed the mochad manually and then ran the same configuration and it ran fine, I was able to control the devices.

I prefer the to use hass.io so I was wondering, what do I need to do to get mochad working on Hass,io.

Do I need to install mochad and if so how>

Thanks

Johnny

2

Your indentation is incorrect. The first 3 lines should be

mochad:
  host: 127.0.0.1
  port: 1099
3

The indentation is correct in the configuration file but I messed when I pasted it in the post. The issue is not the configuration file, because when I run Hassbian with the same configuration file it works fine.

4

Did you get mochad working on hassio.

For me it is not working it looks like the mochad deamon is missing. I did setup another PI with raspbian home assistant setup and installed the mochad deamon.

From the hassio PI I did then point to this new setup. Now I can create X10 lights and control them in Hassio.

Inshort the setup looks like :
172.16.0.1 PI with hassio
in configuration.yaml
mochad:
host: 172.16.0.2
port: 1099

17.16.0.2 Pi with raspbian home assistant and Mochad deamon.

This is not the setup I would like to have, however I don’t know how to get mochad running on the hassio PI.

5

I could not get mochad running with hassio, I ended running everything on Raspbian with docker container for each component so I have a docker container for HomeAssistant, one for mochad, one for mosquitto. I used the recommendation from this reddit link https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/895iw6/my_home_assistant_setup_rpi_3b_docker_compose/ and mochad is working as expected. One of the drawback for this setup is that you don’t get the convenience of all the add-ons. My setup is still in beta, I have not fully deployed it. I am still debating if I want to put it on the internet using duckdns.

I do have another pi and if I need the add-ons I might switch back to hassio and have a similar setup as you have with my other pi since I am slowly phasing out my x10 devices and might not need mochad eventually.

Hope this helps.

6

Same for me, I will keep the current setup and use hassio for the learning of Home Assistant and get used to its configuration files

For the time being I will use the 2 PI setup and phase out the x10 components to stay at Hassio

7

hi guys

I’m running 2PIs setup as well one with fresh new install of HA, the other with dietpi + mochad running on it.
right after install , no issues.
only config mochad:
host: IP
port: 1099
and some lights

Some ‘days?’ later, clicking on a light switch in HA, gets me a
service error “light/turn_off”. [Errno 32] Broken pipe

while echo “pl c13 off” | nc IP 1099 from the HA console works

Logger: homeassistant.components.websocket_api.http.connection
Source: components/mochad/light.py:126
Integration: Home Assistant WebSocket API (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 19:40:45 (10 occurrences)
Last logged: 19:59:38

[2897073392] [Errno 32] Broken pipe
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/websocket_api/commands.py", line 135, in handle_call_service
    await hass.services.async_call(
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1451, in async_call
    task.result()
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1486, in _execute_service
    await handler.job.target(service_call)
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity_component.py", line 204, in handle_service
    await self.hass.helpers.service.entity_service_call(
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/service.py", line 499, in entity_service_call
    future.result()  # pop exception if have
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity.py", line 664, in async_request_call
    await coro
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/service.py", line 536, in _handle_entity_call
    await result
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity.py", line 699, in async_turn_off
    await self.hass.async_add_executor_job(ft.partial(self.turn_off, **kwargs))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 57, in run
    result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/mochad/light.py", line 126, in turn_off
    self.light.send_cmd("off")
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pymochad/device.py", line 45, in send_cmd
    self.controller.send_cmd(cmd_str + '\n')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pymochad/controller.py", line 71, in send_cmd
    self.socket.sendall(six.binary_type(cmd.encode('utf8')))
BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

any ideas?
sometimes kicking out something (don’t remember what) or reboot, makes it work again…

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opened bug report…