Thanks to everyone who's offered any useful insights/thoughts thus far. If you look at the attached diagram I'm hoping to build a device that acts a central controller for consumer electronics & home automation. I want a hand-held to interface with it, this hand-held would ideally have IR integrated, but it's not imperative as Wifi would be used mostly.
So far the best solution I've found is this: http://openremote.org/display/HOME/OpenRemote You don't have to use their reference hardware but something low power/profile like it would be ideal. It's critical one has JRE + Apache Tomcat installed/configured properly, I'd run this software on top of Ubuntu or maybe LinuxMCE. I was thinking of integrating the entire thing into my HTPC (at least the IR part). However I'm not sure yet, it might be better to have a dedicated machine. This controller would be able to send/receive via; Internet, Wifi, Ethernet, IR, X10, proprietary RF, & numerous other CE/HA related protocols. I'm hoping to make do with my axim x50v as the hand-held but porting to android is slow moving so i may eventually have to move to a better supported device (preferably with IR but not essential). I'm interested in other peoples ideas, have you tried something similar? Have you played with a platform that's better (in your opinion) than openremote? Or perhaps you know of a better hware/sware/topology combo for the hand-held or controller/s? Cheers, Jed --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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