for web server stuff :
see
http://wiki.chumby.com/mediawiki/index. ... mby_tricks
and
http://forum.chumby.com/index.php
to use it for home automation is not so easy, depending on what you want....
The chumby basically plays a 'slideshow' of 'flash lite' widgets.
Every x seconds, another widget is displayed (you can also manually 'freeze' the slideshow on a single widget)
You can define multiple series of widgets called channels and manually activate a channel (via button on top)...
Of course, you can 'easily' make a flash widget that just displays your current room temperature or x10 lights status or currently playing music track or something like that (if you have some type of (web?) server in your house that exposes such stuff)...
(note that flash has some special security/sandbox issues that you need to handle)
But, if you want to CONTROL something or if you want to display ALERTS (like caller id, email notification etc.), then you
either need to get rid of the flash and make your own linux application (cross compiled for ARM processor!)
or make a single flash widget that is always displayed and does whatever you want (i.e. handle touch screen presses to switch on/off lights, displays multiple pages of x10 status,alerts etc.)
so, if you want the possibility of ALERTS, that would mean that you can't also use the 100's of existing widgets..
if you don't care about alerting, then you can define multiple 'channels'
channel 1 -> News , clock, rss feeds, whatever...
channel 2 -> home control
and you can use the button on top of the chumby to select which channel you want...
Marcel
dont buy too much at the same time, it breaks the "wow" effect and you have to decide which one is the coolest to work on. (in my case that leaves the less interesting things on the shelves)
