Re: Choice of OS for Home Automation

["steve" <steve@xxxxxxx>]

I took would like to head this way as i could make use of lower spec
machines i have. My VB app has grown and it is getting sluggish
unfourtunately my Linux knowledge is almost zero.

Whilst the desire amonst HA'ers on the list is to have nice input/output
device in the HA system. I wish to have no user controls in my system and
have the pc automate things intelligently as i have done with my heating
removing timers & set points, summer/winter switch etc.

Although i have a colorful GUI with graphic LED's showing states they are
completely uneccessary once the app is debugged. A text based system under
Linux would be perfectly adequate. I just have no idea how to go about it.

Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Harvey" <andyharvey99@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Choice of OS for Home Automation


> --- Giles Paterson <gpaterson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I am a bit of a Linux freak so would prefer to do
> > things that way if
> > possible. It just strikes that me using an old PC
> > running Linux would be
> > more cost effective than a high power machine
> > running NT or 2000. There also
> > seems to be a fair amount of open source software
> > for interfacing to X10
> > devices (a quick search on freshmeat.net revealed 20
> > or so).
> >
> > Does anyone on this list have experience of using
> > Linux in a home automation
> > environment?
>
> Yes, I run my home brewed home automation system on a
> 486 with 20M RAM running RedHat 6.2.
>
> It provides a TV output, has modem with caller
> display, input from a radio remote control, X10 via a
> CMU12, is connected to my burglar alarm, and can be
> controlled by email or SMS messages.
>
> I am thinking about upgrading to a Pentium because I
> want to use it for playing MP3s but the 486 can't
> quite cope.
>
> I started out using heyu originally but now have my
> own daemons and a load of bash scripts.
>
> =====
> --
> Andy Harvey
> andy@xxxxxxx
>
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