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Bluelava is a very old (Still supports WAP) set of cgi scripts that control equally ancient X10 systems using a variety of backends, like Heyu or Bottlerocket. It's pretty easy to configure and is fairly agnostic as to where it runs on your server - as long as the server can support the execution of perl, you're probably good.

X10 may be old, but it's still useful and cheap, and is supported by modern Homelink systems in cars. I've had a copy of this running on a Pi since forever ago, so long I had to sit down and refresh my memory on exactly how it was setup and how I'm calling the scripts.

Bluelava is a very old (Still supports WAP) set of cgi scripts that control equally ancient X10 systems using a variety of backends, like Heyu or Bottlerocket. It's pretty easy to configure and is fairly agnostic as to where it runs on your server - as long as the server can support the execution of perl, you're probably good. X10 may be old, but it's still useful and cheap, and is supported by modern Homelink systems in cars. I've had a copy of this running on a Pi since forever ago, so long I had to sit down and refresh my memory on exactly how it was setup and how I'm calling the scripts.

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Gawd I hated x10. Maybe it worked better in other houses, but ours had noise issues that interfered we think. Sent signals that didn’t register, phantom signals for turning the lights off when you didn’t want…

Good automation is magic, it just works , you don’t even think about it. It’s wonderful. bad automation is a giant pain in the ass, which is why it’s all discreet switches for everything I own now.

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I found that during the compact fluorescent days, X10 didn't work at all because of the noise. I've had relatively little problems otherwise with it for the 20+ years I've been using it here.

I do have the random light on from a power flicker, but that's about it. The automation portion of the system sends commands 5 times to make sure the device it's talking to is on.

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This was back when it was newer, so yes the CF days.

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X10 dates to the mid 1970s, so "newer" is relative, I guess.

I cut my use of X10 during the CF days. When LEDs became cheap enough, that all went away. Apparently the power supplies are cleaner for those.