X10 bluelava WAP interface
Tuesday, May 31st, 2005I’ve had a bunch of X10 gear laying around my apartment for quite some time. I installed a few devices several months after I moved into my apartment. I got 3 devices wired up (live, mind you) and decided that wiring things hot when you’re alone in your apartment, probably isn’t such a good idea….but it would be interesting to see how long it would take before anyone noticed… 
anyway, back when I installed everything, I installed a tool called bottlerocket which gave me command-line control of the devices using my linux box’s serial port. I then installed a cgi programmed called bluelava which uses bottlerocket as a backend (it also supports other X10 backends) and has a built in WML UI (to control them from my mobile). I played around with it for a while, then broke it, then got distracted and never touched it again. Fast forward a few months….since I got my new Treo, I decided to set everything up again. After chmod 777 my serial port (777, whatever, I don’t care) everything worked again. I can now browse to the following url and turn on/off my devices.
I’m going to regret posting this to the entire internet, but it might be kinda fun.