Hi!
I have been working on a plug on that interfaces Vera to Mochad, which is a “mochad is a Linux TCP gateway daemon for the X10 CM15A RF (radio frequency) and PL (power line) controller and the CM19A RF controller.”
This will give you full send and receive control to X10 PL, RF, and RFSEC devices.
You have to have a usb cm15a or cm19a controller plugged into a linux computer running the mochad daemon. I have run mochad on a pc, an openwrt router, and most recently a Pogoplug plug computer. I recommend the Pogoplug if you don’t have a linux box already running 24/7 because it is <5watts. It makes a good Vera extender!
Right now I support:
binary lights (this could also be an appliance module)
dimmable lights (both old and new ‘softstart’, although you have to tell my plugin which)
motion sensors that use housecodes (ms14a/ms16a)
I do not support RFSEC devices yet. (ds10a, ms10a, etc). I will but I just haven’t done it yet!
I just started the plugin earlier this week and it needs a bit of tweaking.
I am successfully dimming a lamp module and watching a couple of motion sensors.
X10 sensors are dirt cheap which is one of the benefits of this plugin. ds10a door/window sensors are 9 for $30, ms14a PIR motion sensors are 6 for $35, and ms10a (bigger/nicer/RFSEC PIR motion sensors) are 7 for $50. Combine that with 20% off and free shipping… lets just say I bought a lot of these before I found vera. People do a lot of cool things with ds10a sensors especially, and for ~$3 each why not?
Plus I am assuming that like me you have a bunch of this x10 crap sitting around that you would like to use while you move to z-wave.
Please don’t install this yet unless you are familiar with luup as I am experiencing a few issues still!
Hopefully some luup experts can set me straight?
EDIT: Attachments removed. New code is now up at code.mios.com