X10 Interfaces (CM19A)

[mrburns42]

I am brand new to HomeGenie.   I see that it supports the CM15 and CM11 interfaces.  That is great!    What I am running right now is a CM19A.   This is a USB interface that can send and receive  X10 RF codes.   It has no assigned House Code and it responds to both the home control and security codes. 

Is there any plans to add this X10 interface?   I realize that people are probably more interested in other interfaces and other features.   If there are no plans for the CM19A,  then I may try to dig into it myself, as it could just be a simple subset of the CM15.

Thanks for a great product!

[mrburns42]

Well,  I scanned through the source code folders and did not find the low-level X-10 stuff.  I did see where the driver is from Marmitek.   Perhaps they are only providing binaries.   

Another solution on Linux would be to use mochad.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mochad/

From their website "mochad is a Linux TCP gateway daemon for the X10 CM15A RF (radio frequency) and PL (power line) controller and the CM19A RF controller."

I have used this with a Raspberry Pi and it works great with some Perl scripts.   I think a simple wrapper could be written to take the output from this daemon and import it into HomeGenie.   One drawback would be systems with the CM15A, as it would then have two interfaces attempting to control the device.   It should not be too much of a problem, as there is no real reason to have both a CM15A and a CM19A in the same system.