Brett Davidson wrote:
A long long time ago (in a galaxy near us however) Andrew Errington
and John Carter corresponded about Home Automation in Christchurch.
Andrew appeared to use dedicated microcontroller chips and John was
pondering about X10 at that time (July 2007).
I am building a new house at present and am looking at what control
systems are out there worth considering implementing as this will help
me what and where I should pre-wire and where I can use IR or
bluetooth, etc. I want to do it all - switch audio/video along with
control of appliances and monitoring of energy usage, etc.
There's CBus, Qnet, Emax, and a whole host of others with wildly
optimistic promises hence I wondered what (if any) experience people
on this list had in the real word.
Tie in to Linux - I would prefer that this be Linux (via embedded or
not) control as I want as little proprietary content as possible.
Cheers,
Brett.
There is an article on home automation in this month's Linux
journal..........
: )
