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Home Automation with Linux
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| Home automation may sound like a science-fiction
| dream, but in reality it is not only commonplace,
| but relatively simple to get started, especially
| with Linux.
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| [...]
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| Like any large-scale project, home automation
| demands a time investment, whether you take the
| do-it-yourself approach or use a whole-house
| system. Setting up the modules, designing
| lighting scenarios, and planning then testing the
| schedules takes time. There is also a hardware
| investment--even the simplest and cheapest
| standard, X10, begins to add up once you purchase
| a dozen or more modules and controllers; INSTEON
| and the other standards can be an order of
| magnitude more expensive. Still, the open source
| device drivers and Linux-based whole-house
| management systems are vastly less expensive than
| proprietary options, and like all open source
| code, offer the user unlimited freedom to
| customize.
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http://www.linux.com/news/hardware/peripherals/135780-home-automation-with-linux
Recent:
Open Source Automation
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| SERCOS International (SI) has announced it will provide an open source
| software driver library for the SERCOS lll real-time Ethernet communication
| system master implementation. SERCOS III thus will be the first high
| performance real-time protocol which makes driver software available as
| source code, without any license fees and without any usage limitations.
|
| [...]
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| OSADL eG is an international cooperative that promotes and coordinates the
| usage of open-source software in the context of machine and plant control
| systems. OSADL represents the interests of machine builders, manufacturers of
| automation hardware and software, and open-source service providers. Any
| company can become a member of the cooperative.
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http://www.drivesmag.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=695&Itemid=2
Automation computer runs Linux from flash
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| Moxa has announced a 19-inch rackmount computer that is intended for power
| substations and other industrial automation applications. The DA-681 runs
| Linux from flash storage and includes a 1GHz Celeron processor, four RS232
| ports, eight RS485 ports, six Ethernet ports, and dual power inputs, says
| Moxa.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7194290328.html?kc=rss
Home Automation the Nokia Way
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| Nokia has opened a home automation project based around a Linux platform.
| They say you will be able to control your home from a browser or tablet or a
| cellphone. Direct to the project page.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/11/29/54957
Home automation in GNU/Linux
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| Home Automation is anything that your home does for you automatically to make
| living there more enjoyable or productive. It covers many areas, including
| remote and timed control of lights and electrical home appliances,
| distributed media services, and communication. Over the last 10 years, many
| hardware manufacturers have presented their own proprietary solutions to
| these problems. Unbeknownst to them, a groundswell of developers from around
| the world has been providing similar solutions to the free and open source
| community.
|
| In this introductory article, I will carry out a high-level review of a
| number of these projects to see what is already available.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/home_automation_in_linux
Related:
Automation device maker taps commercial embedded Linux
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| Wind River has announced another design win for its Linux distribution
| targeting consumer electronics devices. AMX, which sells high-end industrial
| and home automation systems used in the White House's War Room and elsewhere,
| will switch its "Modero" touchpanels to Platform for Consumer Devices, Linux
| Edition (PCD-LE).
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2980244169.html
Glaucus Linux Powered Automation Appliance
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| "Glaucus is a computer configured specifically for the described
| automation tasks. Because it is not used as a general-purpose
| computer it is immune to problems like your children using
| software that interferes with the critical operations or even
| causes the computer to crash It uses the ultra-reliable Linux
| operating system. It has no monitor, keyboard or mouse. All
| interaction with it is through a browser interface..."
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http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1539
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