The CM17A Firecracker X10 module is a simple to use X10 controller that attaches to the serial port of your computer. It communicates with a wireless transceiver, sending it X10 commands that are further sent to other X10 modules via your household power lines. The Firecracker controller allows you to control on/off devices throughout your house.
The x10-cm17a allows Ruby programs to send simple on/off and dim/bright commands to any device controlled by the CM17A controller.
If you install using RubyGems, all you need to do is:
gem install x10-cm17a # may require root privilege
Be aware that the x10-cm17a software contains a C extension and requires you to have a C build environment to install from source. This is not an issue on unix systems, but a C build environment is not part of the default Windows installations. See here for more information about compiling C extensions on windows.
ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup
ruby setup.rb install # may require root privilege
Installing from a TGZ also requires a C build environment. See the notes above in the gem install section for more details.
Using the x10-cm17a library is very easy. Here is the basic example:
require 'x10/cm17a'
lamp = X10.device('a1') # Create an X10 device
# ... at X10 address 'a1'
lamp.on # Turn the device on
lamp.step -5 # Dim the lamp by 5 steps
lamp.off # Turn the lamp offThat's all there to it!
By default, the X10 system will find the controller loaded by the require statement and use that. If there are more than one X10 controller class loaded in the system, or if you wish to construct the controller with arguments, then you need to explicitly create the X10 controller.
- If your CM17A module is on
/dev/ttyS1(instead of the default/dev/ttyS0), you may do the following:
X10.controller = X10::Cm17a::Controller.new("/dev/ttyS1")-
If you wish to use the remote DRb driver to access a CM17A module on a remote computer, you may use the following:
X10.controller = X10::Cm17aRemote::Controller.new("druby://remote_host:7777")
Except as noted below, this software is made available under an MIT-style open source license. See the file MIT-LICENSE included in the distribution for details.
The C code for x10-cm17a was, in part, derived from the Linux FlipIt command line utility for controlling the CM17A firecracker module.
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