X10 ActiveHome Pro USB Transceiver Module - CM15A

so in this video I'm going to show you my beagle bone green powered x10 2 MQTT bridge so why would we do this x10 has a lot of extremely affordable devices for home automation it's older stuff but you can pick it up really cheap so it's extremely fun to hack things together especially if your want to do if low cost this bridge will allow you to collect data from your x10 devices and bring it to a more modern protocol like mqtt where you can interface with everything else in the internet of things so the core is based on a BeagleBone green and of course bigger moon has a USB port which is used to connect to a CM 15a x10 module this thing actually monitors x10 traffic and using the Beagle bone we can capture that and turn it into MQTT so let me explain what all it does and then we'll go into how it does so this is one of the modules I really wanted to tap into it's a motion sensor it's ba