[ILUG] home automation

[Kevin Brennan]

How about this to watch your heating go on/off - includes I/O ports (don't
forget to check the OS)

MPEG4 Wireless Internet Day/Night Camera
http://www.digidave.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=31&products_id=95

Br /Kev/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Barry" <ilug at cutehoor.com>
To: <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 12:13 PM
Subject: [ILUG] home automation


> I have a home-automation system based around a linux box. When I first
> built it about 5 years ago, I used a picoweb to do digital i/o controlled
> via its embedded webserver.
> http://www.picoweb.net/
> At the time this was state of the art cheap embedded http server, and fun
> to work with. Laughable underpowered, painful to work with, but does the
> job. My heating system controlled by webserver - how geeky is that.
>
> Anyway, I'm thinking of extending this a bit over Christmas and looking
> for another web/ethernet controlled device for i/o. I took a look around
> and cheapest devices are expensive when dev kit is included.
> Buying kit from the US seems to have become more difficult and expensive,
> so I'd prefer easily sourced (EU based) kit.
>
> This thing looks ideal
> http://www.ipio.nu/
> but seems very expensive (>EUR300) if I got my conversion right.
>
> Now I'm wondering if I could use something like a cheap Linksys firewall
> and hack the i/o lines onto it, using a version of the replacement GPL
> firmware. I've never toyed with these before, so don't know how tricky it
> is to recompile and never looked inside one. Anyone know more?
>
> Good links for HA at
> http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/lightsey/52/index2.html#HLinks
> but didn't see anything about hacking an existing device.
>
> BTW, not interested in X10 solutions and I have Cat5 and 230v running to
> the point where I want control.
>
> Any other suggestions for ethernet controlled I/O?
>
>
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