Project description

The X10 Lightswitch is free and open-sourced Web-based controller for turning on devices via CM19A Linux device. A brief overview of what this project does is it will send commands to the x10-cm19a driver via a AJAX front-end. This project can be useful to you, if you are looking into a home automation solution with the ability to control your power sources from your computer, mobile devices or touch screen panels via a AJAX-enabled browser.

Uses PHPAjax libraries and also needs Neil Cherry and Michael LeMay x10-cm19a Linux drivers to work.

Prequirements

• X10 CM19A USB adapter
• x10-cm19a driver ( http://lemaymd.com/drupal/node/3 After you have this working you should see a /dev/cm19a0 file )
• phpajax (http://www.phpajax.org)
• Apache2 with PHP5 and Sqlite

Project Detail

Latest Version

• Version - 0.1.0

Features

• Remote control interface
• Device configuration
• History of last 10 actions

Planned features for future releases

• Sun-rise simulation
• Sun-set simulation
• Sun-rise simulation scheduler
• Sun-set simulation scheduler
• Randomizer scheduler

Installation Instruction

Instructions Ubuntu specific

1. Install apache2, php5, php5-sqlite pacakges

# sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-sqlite

2. Copy Lightswitch Application to web folder

# sudo cp -r lightswitch /var/www

3. Copy phpajax to Lightswitch application lib directory

# sudo cp -r phpajax /var/www/lightswitch/lib

4. Change ownership of Lightswitch applicatin to www-data user

# sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/lightswitch

5. Restart apache2

# sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Compatible Browser

Working

1. Mobile Safari
2. Safari
3. Chrome
4. Firefox 3
5. Internet Explorer 6/7
6. Opera Mobile for Windows Mobile

Not working

1. Mobile Internet Explorer on Windows Mobile 6

Screenshots

• Screenshots