Re: Linux, anyone?

["Harrison, Mark (Alliance)" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

I'm using a sound card to send MIDI instructions to an NJD MIDI lighting
controller.

At the moment, I'm "between" working sound card installations,
which is
why we were up till midnight on Saturday trying to reinstall the AWE
Midi driver from an FTP site.

In any case, it's sitting in pieces on my study floor, since the
intention is to go "live" in my new house, not the current one.
(Land
secured, next door both sides has now got planning permission so should
be infill, looking to apply for planning permission later this year with
construction work to start spring 2000.)

However it would be nice to crack all the HA aspects before construction
work starts.

I'm already committed to explictly running all the lighting points back
to a central patch panel, and wiring switches (of some kind) back
separately. Done this in my friend's cottage rennovation, and it's
working well.

He also wants to go ahead with the MIDI control solution.

Regards,

Mark Harrison
European IT Manager, BP/Bovis Alliance
Tel: +44 181 869 1439
Fax: +44 181 423 7711
SMTP: Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx



-----Original Message-----
From: Nigel Orr [mailto:nigel.orr@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 March 1999 10:36
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Linux, anyone?


At 09:42 10/03/99 -0000, you wrote:
>Anyone out there using Linux to automate some (or all) of their homes?

Trying to, but slowly...

>At the moment, I've got to the stage where I can control some of the
>lights with a convenient Web interface ;-)

That's a lot further than me ;-)  I'm planning on heating control
first...

>1: Anyone got any experience of hooking up switches so they send
>"messages" to a daemon running on Linux?

I was planning to use ibuttons, with some programs running constantly.
I'm
still not certain what is available for Linux though- and Dallas Semi
don't
seem to be either... what hardware are you controlling- X10?

>2: Where's the best place to get a RedHat 5.2 CD - I'm fed up of doing
>my installations live from sunsite's ftp server ...

You don't wanna do that ;-)

Try www.polo.demon.co.uk/emporium

You might also want to look into uk.comp.os.linux- a helpful bunch.

Nigel

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