Bottlerocket

I finally got around to hooking up the x10 thing to the T.V. It took some messing around but I finally got it working. The trick was to use the correct serial port. I still can't figure out how to set the default port.

My boss gave me his "firecracker" x10 device. I hooked it up to my Debian box. In order to use it, you need to install the bottlerocket package.

apt-get install bottlerocket

There was one time that dpkg asked me what port to use and I guessed at ttyS0 and that was wrong. If you can figure out the correct serial port before hand, that seems to be best. Since I guessed wrong I have to issue the bottlerocket command:

br --port=/dev/ttyS1 a1 off

And that turns off the T.V. Now I can be at work and via SSH turn off the T.V. and make the kids read a book. Now if I can just get the rest of the lights hooked in. MUAHAHAHAHA!