On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 5:58 PM Bill Barry <b...@billbarry.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 3:22 PM Michael Barnes <barnmich...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Anybody have any experience with mochad or netcat? > > My project is using a Raspberry Pi Zero with an X-10 CM-19A transceiver > to > > control my Christmas lights from Alexa. > > > > There are two components to this. First is to install mochad to pipe > > commands to the CM-19A. I got mochad installed and it seems to work. From > > the command line or script, I do > > > > echo "rf A2 on" | nc localhost 1099 > > > Does > nc localhost 1099 << EOF > rf A2 on > EOF > work? Some netcats need more persuasion, but some way of feeding it an > EOF is needed. > > Bill > Apparently, the EOF thing was an issue. Adding the -q flag fixed it. echo "rf A2 on" | nc -q 0 localhost 1099 An entry in /etc/rc.local seems to have fixed the startup problem. Got ha-bridge and mochad talking. Now the last hurdle is getting Alexa to talk to ha-bridge. Michael _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
