Home automation with Gentoo Linux and Heyu

Heyu is an excellent package for managing the X-10 CM11A serial interface (and some others, as well). I use it at home for automatically turning on and off lights. My home servers run Gentoo Linux, which gives a great amount of control over what packages are installed on your system and how these packages are compiled.

Unfortunately, heyu is not in the official Portage (Gentoo’s package manager) tree. So, here is an ebuild that can be placed in an overlay. It is a tar file, compressed with bz2. Download it to your machine and type tar xvjf heyu.tar.bz2

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