On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Christopher Hiller <[email protected]> wrote: > > We have an automated build process and I would like to integrate it with > red/green lava lamps or something of that sort.
Cool idea. I've been planning to get to that point one of these days. > I know absolutely nothing about "home automation" or the > hardware necessary to do this sort of thing. Neither did I. I'm a total softie. But there's not much to it. > Whatever HW solution we come up with must be USB (no serial > port) and work with Ubuntu. I had an X10 setup (very cheap, $7/switch, maybe $10/outlet, and I want to say $20 for the serial port controller) working on a Red Hat system in my home maybe 6 years ago. Really easy to configure the device IDs. So you could just plug the lamp/monkey into a controlled outlet. That's the last time I looked into this. I was turning on lights etc from cron jobs. The interface was via a really crufty Java-written text-based description file. I'd be interested to know what progress has been made since then. Surely X10 supports USB by now. I use Ubuntu now too. I'll start looking into it, but would also be interested to hear of others' experiences. -- @MicahElliott | [email protected] | http://MicahElliott.com _______________________________________________ Portland mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland
