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Setup Tellstick on a Raspberry Pi

Install Raspbian by downloading the image from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ and run:

# Replace diskn with your disk, you can find it by: diskutil list
$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskn
$ sudo dd bs=1m if=path_of_your_image.img of=/dev/diskn

SSH and update

$ ssh pi@<pi-ip>
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

Install some basic dependencies

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libconfuse-dev libftdi-dev help2man

Install telldus-core

$ mkdir -p telldus-tmp && cd telldus-tmp
$ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/telldus.list
$ deb-src http://download.telldus.com/debian/ stable main
$ wget http://download.telldus.se/debian/telldus-public.key
$ sudo apt-key add telldus-public.key
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get build-dep telldus-core
$ sudo apt-get --compile source telldus-core
$ sudo dpkg --install *.deb
$ cd .. && rm telldus-tmp

Configure tellstick

$ sudo nano /etc/tellstick.conf

You can find some information here: http://developer.telldus.com/wiki/TellStick_conf

My config looks like this:

user = "nobody"
group = "plugdev"
deviceNode = "/dev/tellstick"
ignoreControllerConfirmation = "false"

device {
  id = 1
  name = "Kitchen Window"
  protocol = "everflourish"
  model = "everflourish"
  parameters {
    house = "1"
    unit = "1"
  }
}

device {
  id = 2
  name = "Bedroom window"
  protocol = "everflourish"
  model = "everflourish"
  parameters {
    house = "1"
    unit = "2"
  }
}

device {
  id = 3
  name = "Living room window"
  protocol = "everflourish"
  model = "everflourish"
  parameters {
    house = "1"
    unit = "3"
  }
}

device {
  id = 4
  name = "Living room lamp"
  protocol = "arctech"
  model = "selflearning-switch"
  parameters {
    house = "2622"
    unit = "1"
  }
}

device {
  id = 5
  name = "Hallway table"
  protocol = "arctech"
  model = "selflearning-switch"
  parameters {
    house = "1406"
    unit = "1"
  }
}

device {
  id = 6
  name = "Hallway Door"
  protocol = "arctech"
  model = "selflearning-switch"
  parameters {
    house = "1282"
    unit = "1"
  }
}

controller {
  id = 1
  type = 1
  serial = "A900I90U"
}

Restart tellstick

$ sudo /etc/init.d/telldusd restart

Commands:

$ tdtool -e 1 # Learn unit 1
$ tdtool --on 1 # Turn on unit 1
$ tdtool --off 1 # Turn off unit 1
$ tdtool -l # list all units

That's all folks