The last hurdle might be the realization that having an Alexa in the first place was a mistake ;-)
On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 6:39 PM Michael Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 5:58 PM Bill Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 3:22 PM Michael Barnes <[email protected]> > > 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 > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
