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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Esteban</i> <br />@snelvuur: yes I guess so, but maybe his kids caught the home automation bug...

My neighbor gave me a beat up magazine with that very article in it about ten years ago. I love it. I have it somewhere around here.

Neil Cherry
Linux Home Automation
Author: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies

I wrote a chapter on this in my book, while I can't give out the chapter I can tell you how I did it. My Linux setup is using CUPS as it's printer daemon and I'm using heyu with a CM11A to turn the printer on/off. I created two scripts, the first x10backend.pl ( http://www.linuxha.com/common/x10back...

The first thing that most people automate is their holiday lights (usually Christmas trees) and maybe their coffee machine.

Neil Cherry
Linux Home Automation
Author: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies

I'm going to put in an Elk M1 and I'll have a keypad that you can hit the button to do just that (not it's sole purpose though).

Neil Cherry
Linux Home Automation
Author: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies

This is what I came up with:

perl -e '$a="1.8300000+01";$a=~s/\+/E/g;printf("%.2f\n",$a);'

Neil Cherry
Linux Home Automation
Author: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by snelvuur</i> <br />still its fun to see on google maps how the route went, and what times you ...

When I'm out cycling I'm not so sure I want all my technology following me. I like my cycling computer (with cadence). I use that all the time. I also use the distance as the riders I lead get very upset when my rides turn into 200k's. [:D] My friend wants me to get a GPS but I don't need a device t...

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by snelvuur</i> Do you have a link to the ACT a10 keypads?<hr height="1" noshade id=&qu...

From what I have read Xanura == A10. I worked with ACT testing one of their A10 Keypad's. I liked them so much I purchased 2 (I have a total of 3). I really like ACT's products. <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">...

Thanks for buying the book, wish I could give it away free (Bruce Peren has explained to me how I could have done that after I wrote the book, c'est la vie!). The next one may go that way but thatdepends on whether Wiley wants to publish the next or not. It's part of the contract I signed. My apolog...

Hi Rob, there are a lot of little things that probably should not be automated like portable space heaters, electric blankets or my wife's - err never mind! ;-) I don't know about in Europe but in the US (where I'm from) a gas fire place is something I'd be very careful about automating (at least at...

I'm running Misterhouse ( http://www.misterhouse.com - MH), I need to finish upgrading to the latest Insteon software so I can remove my CM11A from the setup. I also need to do some work on the 1-wire interfaces as I have about 25 temp. sensors I need to install (to monitor my electric baseboard hea...

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by kroon040</i> <br />I'm using this forum a lot and i'm mostley interested in Linux software for...

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by snelvuur</i> <br />I ordered linux smart home automation for dummies ;-) http://www.amazon.com...