home automation

[Jack Craig]

recently started using ubuntu for a client, not nearly as refined as fedora.

but you get to chose your own poison, ... :)


On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Jared Greenwald <greenwaldjared at gmail.com>wrote:

> I realize this is not strictly a "tech support" question, but I didn't see
> any other appropriate list for this, so please don't flame me...
>
> I'm looking to get into home automation and I was wondering if there were
> any on the list that could point me to any good resources that are out
> there relating to Ubuntu.  My goals were to accomplish the following:
>
> MUST
> - be controlled by an Ubuntu Linux server box.
> - control power.
> - control HVAC (this is actually more important to me than power control)
> - have a web portal that I can access both within my home network and from
> the internet when not at home.
>
> BONUS POINTS FOR
> - security camera access.
> - security system interface (door open/close sensors, etc).
>
> I'm basically starting from scratch.  I've toyed with the idea of picking
> up an X10 kit, but I'm not 100% sure how well that plays with being
> controlled by Linux.  I'm done some research on linuxha.com, but there
> are so many different options out there and so many different combinations
> of hardware that I'm not quite sure where to start.  If you've had any
> success in this area, please feel free to shout out what your setup looks
> like.  Any information would be helpful to me at this point.
>
> TIA
>
> -Jared
>
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