Background
I have a long time looked at Telldus Tellstick that can control wall-plug socket recievers and other devices. Finally I got my hands on one that my collegue wanted to sell.
This article will describe how to get it up and running on a x86_64 CentOS 6 box, the procedure would be the same on RHEL or Feodora and similiar on other Linux distributions. Unfortunatly the only distribution that has pre-made packages is Ubuntu so I will describe howto download the source code, compile it and get the amazing Telldus Tellstick up and running.
Kudos to Telldus that has understood the power of OpenSource and opened up the device to let third-part vendors make solutions based on the device.
Installation
Install packages needed for the compilation
yum install gcc gcc-c++ autoconf automake cmake
Libconfuse is needed:
wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/libconfuse/libconfuse-2.6-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/libconfuse/libconfuse-devel-2.6-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
Install libconfuse:
rpm -Uvh libconfuse-*
warning: libconfuse-2.6-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 6b8d79e6: NOKEY
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:libconfuse ########################################### [ 50%]
2:libconfuse-devel ########################################### [100%]
Download, configure, compile, and install the Tellstick package from Telldus
wget http://download.telldus.se/TellStick/Software/telldus-core/telldus-core-2.0.4.tar.gztar xzvf telldus-core-2.0.4.tar.gz cd telldus-core-2.0.4cmake .make make install echo /usr/local/lib > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/tellstick.confldconfigmodprobe ftdi_sio vendor=0x1781 product=0x0c30Aug 29 18:50:57 mother kernel: usb 1-3.2: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4Aug 29 18:50:57 mother kernel: usb 1-3.2: New USB device found, idVendor=1781, idProduct=0c30Aug 29 18:50:57 mother kernel: usb 1-3.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3Aug 29 18:50:57 mother kernel: usb 1-3.2: Product: TellStickAug 29 18:50:57 mother kernel: usb 1-3.2: Manufacturer: TelldusAug 29 18:50:57 mother kernel: usb 1-3.2: SerialNumber: A400gl7JAug 29 18:50:57 mother kernel: usb 1-3.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choiceAug 29 18:50:57 mother kernel: ftdi_sio 1-3.2:1.0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter detectedAug 29 18:50:57 mother kernel: usb 1-3.2: Detected FT232RLAug 29 18:50:57 mother kernel: usb 1-3.2: Number of endpoints 2Aug 29 18:50:57 mother kernel: usb 1-3.2: Endpoint 1 MaxPacketSize 64Aug 29 18:50:57 mother kernel: usb 1-3.2: Endpoint 2 MaxPacketSize 64Aug 29 18:50:57 mother kernel: usb 1-3.2: Setting MaxPacketSize 64Aug 29 18:50:57 mother kernel: usb 1-3.2: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0Configure
deviceNode = "/dev/tellstick"device { id = 2 name = "Example device" protocol = "arctech" model = "selflearning-switch" parameters { house = "12345678" unit = "2" }}# tdtool --learn 2Learning device: 2 Example device - Success# tdtool --on 2Turning on device 2, Example device - Success# tdtool --off 2/var/state/telldus-core.conf:1: no such option 'deviceNode'rm /var/state/telldus-core.confwhile true ; do tdtool --on 2; tdtool --off 2; done Useful links:
- Telldus
- Different Telldus Tellsticks
- Supported devices
September 9th, 2012 at 5:14 pm
Update:
Using telldus-core-2.1.1 instead require
yum install libusb-devel
wget http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/release/x86_64/libftdi-0.20-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
wget http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/release/x86_64/libftdi-devel-0.20-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh libftdi-*
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