[ubuntu-uk] OT: Home Automation

[Ian Pascoe]

Well, so far found the Open Home Automation Project, but doesn't seem to
have been updated since July last year.

Plenty of "freeware" too, but not on sites that I recognise.  And of course
the proprietory stuff too.

There's an outfit that have done some work in the Apple arena and ported to
windows, but only have a partial port to Linux.

And lastly, Phil, found some nice libraries for USB etc but nothing that
indicates RS-485 protocols, but going cross-eyed now, so will have to hit
the coffee instead.

Ian



2008/7/10 Ian Pascoe <softy.lofty.ilp at btinternet.com>:
> Evening all
>
> I seem to recall from previous postings that we have a couple of home
> automation peeps lurking on the list.
>
> I've been presented with a "working" temperature sensor that uses RS-485
> standard, together with a USB convertor.  The problem is that it came with
> no software to grab hold of / display the data.  So two questions.
>
> 1.  Does anyone know of an open source app, either windows or linux that
> will be able to grab hold of this data and maybe display it too?
>
> and/or
>
> 2.  Is anyone aware of a library that can get this data - I am presumeing
> that the standard USB library won't work by itself.

I once herd someone claim that whatever you want to do, there is
probably going to be a Perl library already to do it.

Therefore have a look on CPAN.

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Philip Stubbs

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