plmpower - control Insteon/X10 devices via SmartLabs PLM 2412S

plmpower  is  a  helper  program  for  powerman  which enables communication with Insteon/X10 devices via
       SmartLabs Power Line Modem, model 2412S.  It is run interactively by the powerman daemon.  It can also be
       useful as a standalone tool for debugging X10/Insteon networks based on the above device.

       /usr/sbin/plmpower
       /etc/powerman/powerman.conf

       The following commands are accepted at the plmpower> prompt.  Address  arguments  may  be  Insteon  (e.g.
       1A.2B.3C) or X10 (e.g. G12).

       help   Display help on the available commands.

       info   Get info about the PLM.

       reset  Reset the PLM (clears the all-link db).

       onaddr
              Turn on device.

       offaddr
              Turn off device.

       statusaddr
              Query status of device (Insteon only).

       pingaddr
              Time round trip request/response to device (Insteon only).

       plmpower - control Insteon/X10 devices via SmartLabs PLM 2412S

       Note the addresses of your Insteon/X10 devices.  Plug the PLM into an AC outlet, preferably on  the  same
       electrical  phase  as  the  devices under control.  Devices are available to bridge phases if this is not
       possible.

       Attach the PLM's serial port to your computer, and ensure that nothing else is using the serial port such
       as the system console or getty(8).  Run plmpower and try the interactive commands below  to  see  if  the
       devices respond reliably.

       Once  everything  is  working,  configure  powermand  to  run  plmpower  as  a  coprocess as described in
       powerman.conf(5).

-d,--deviceserial-port
              Specify the path to the special file connected to the PLM's serial port.

       -t,--timeoutmsec
              Set the Insteon timeout to the specified number of milliseconds (default 1000).

       -x,--x10-attemptsnumber
              Set the number of times to run every X10 command (default 3).  X10 does  not  provide  an  ACK/NAK
              mechanism  like  Insteon  so  we  cannot  be  certain  that  any particular X10 command completed,
              therefore X10 commands are issued multiple times to increase confidence.

       PowerMan  was  originally  developed  by  Andrew Uselton on LLNL's Linux clusters.  This software is open
       source and distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

powerman(1), powermand(8), httppower(8), plmpower(8), vpcd(8), powerman.conf(5), powerman.dev(5).

       http://github.com/chaos/powerman

powerman-2.4.4                                   1 December 2008                                     plmpower(8)

plmpower--deviceserial-port