X10 and Heyu on Raspberry Pi

[ricks03 (Rick)]

I’ve installed Home Assistant on my Raspberry Pi using the Raspberry Pi imager.

I’ve got a dozen or so X10 things I want to control using a CM17A and a W800RF32.

I actually started down this Home Assistant path because I stumbled upon Heyu as a tool to control/manage X10 devices with Home Assistant.

However, now that I’ve got Home Assistant installed, I’m stumbling across exactly HOW to get heyu installed on the OS. I get compile errors when I try to use instructions to compile, almost certainly because those instructions tend to be a decade+ old.

What I want is to send and receive X10 signals from Home Assistant. heyu looked like the best path, but I’ll take a different one, or some advice on getting heyu running.

Thanks

[lordwizzard]

Looks like it’s a OS compatibility problem from documentation. Ubuntu/Debian are not listed as supported Linux OS

HEYU - Introduction

So without error messages and logs it is hard to help. Could be missing or deprecated libraries or resources. You might try building and compiling on a Linux computer looking at resolving one error at a time

[francisp (Francis)]

Home Assistant Add-On: X10 (CM11) to MQTT Gateway

Home Assistant Add-on: X10 to MQTT Gateway This add-on allows for on and off control of X10 via a CM11a (serial) interface using MQTT. I’m not sure how many of us still have X10 in our smart homes (I don’t), but I wrote this for a friend who has a handful of them still left and was stuck in a venv environment because of the need for the ‘heyu’ executable. Note that this supports and was tested with the CM11a, which is a RS232 serial device and uses the legacy ‘heyu’ for control under the cover…

[Mikeinnc (Mike Weaver)]

This is of great interest to me. I do still have X10 in my home and it works really well - but not with HA. I have a home security system that has an embedded X10 interface and I also have also a number of lights (plugs), all on the same phase, that can be controlled from programming the security system. In addition, I have a bedside clock that will send an X10 signal to turn off the bedside light and also interfaces with my Clipsal C-Bus lighting to turn off the bedroom ceiling lights - again via a C-Bus interface in the security system. It is so very useful! But - I used to use Heyu on an older version of HA and that, too, worked really well. The problem I have now is where and how do I run Heyu from in a Raspberry Pi 5 that is dedicated to HA? I’ve read the various comments and instructions - but nowhere does it tell me what directory I should put Heyu in or how to run it from HA. I assume its no point adjusting my YAML code until or unless Heyu is running in the background? There must be someone here who can advise me further? I’d be so happy to get my control via HA back!!