Home Automation
Home automation and control (HA) Software (source code and links mostly) for the home automation devices Insteon PowerLinc V2, CM11A, CM17 (Firecracker), LynX10, WM918, HCS II and CPUXA. Links to other hardware/software packages can be found on these pages also. If you know of any additional links please contact me at: ncherry@linuxha.com
Current Status:
2010
2010/08/02 - Just a few more links being cleaned up, corrected and a few HTML syntax corrections.
2010/07/31 - Somehow I forgot to post this link to WOSH - Wide Open Smart Home, an open source, multi-platform framework (message oriented middleware) SOA HA package. It's more than control and monitoring of devices and sensors. It's also the information processing that I so frequently refere to in my HA Definition.
2010/07/26 - Corrected a few links and a few other minor corrections. Oh, it also looks like Charmed Quark is not going Open Source. Roddney appears to be working on figuring a way to stay in business. Good for him.
2010/07/21 - Stefan Stromberg presented me with his new project called NetHomeServer - a Java based Open Source (LGPL 2.1) HA project that interfaces to X10 (via the CM12), FS20 (via the FHZ1000), Nexa and Deltronic. Other sensors are supported and all access is provided via a Web interface. I've cleaned up a few more links and found a bunch more that need to be researched.
2010/07/20 - I've been busy but not in the usual way so I'm a little heavy on the updates this time. I've been spending a lot of time working on IPv6 projects and I have IPv6 working pretty well around the house (Dual Stack). Not with Comcast but with Hurricane Electric and it's free tunnel service. I've also updated a number of links and added a few more to these pages. Mostly I've been busy with putting my notes on my U.S. HomeAutomation site. I'll also be putting up my Projects (such a DollHouse), Presentations and Services. I further hope to have IPv6 support added to Misterhouse by year's end.
I've just found STANTOR which claims that it "gives a new dimension to the home automation". Contains the usual habit of throwing "TLAs" and not saying much. It does have software for Linux and Windows. The site is in French but the author took the trouble to have an English translation also.
Ah more hardware toys, wish I could afford to buy them all. ;-) The ArduinoBT (an Arduino with BlueTooth) and the Freescale MC1322x Series ARM7 Processor with integrated 802.15.4 (FreeScale w/6LoWPAN). I've even given them there own section.
My nice new Bravia TV has a nice Ethernet interface to pull down 'content'. In addition it supports DLNA, unfortunately MediaTomb doesn't so I needed a DLNA server. I found this in MiniDLNA. It works well though it doesn't do transcoding.
I've also found PyTivo and I'm trying make heads and tails of the project. I have a Tivo and it would be nice to be able to watch an occasional TV show on my PC.
I've started a project called DollHouse, an Open Source Perl based DIY HA project intended to run on small, low power, embedded Unix (Linux, BSD, etc.) systems to monitor and control your home using off the shelf components, such as X10, Insteon, Z-Wave and other devices.
Finally, Phil Combs was kind enough to point out the following CEPro article call "Charmed Quark Best Hope For Open-Source Home Automation". It's sad that Rodney had to stop the business but good for the Open Source community.
The History page - where the old updates are moved to.
