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Linux Smart Homes For Dummies by Neil Cherry

By Neil Cherry

A Linux clever house is approximately controlling and tracking units and knowledge round your house utilizing a regular pc, Linux, and its giant array of open resource instruments. You don't must be a grasp programmer to create one. if you happen to prefer to tinker with Linux, "Linux shrewdpermanent houses For Dummies" will advisor you thru cool domestic automation tasks which are as a lot enjoyable to paintings on as they're to exploit. domestic automation was constrained to turning on lighting and home equipment, and perhaps controlling your thermostat and garden sprinkler, out of your machine. if you nonetheless will not be in a position to create the entire Jetsons' toys, this present day it's also possible to: construct a instant community; create and organize a climate station; automate your television and sound process; secret agent in your pets while you're no longer domestic; manage an answering approach that is aware what to do with calls; and elevate your home's safety. for those who know the way to take advantage of Linux and some easy improvement instruments Perl, the BASH shell, improvement libraries, and the GNU C compiler "Linux clever houses For Dummies" may help you do most of these tips and extra. for instance, you could: notice the simplest assets for Linux-based domestic automation units; organize a instant community, create a instant entry element, construct a bridge among stressed and instant networks, and direction your personal community site visitors; construct a private video recorder with MythTV that would list to DVD, or arrange a instant streaming tune process; create a sensible mobilephone approach that takes messages and forwards them on your fax, modem, or answering desktop; construct a climate station that notifies you of serious climate indicators; and, keep watch over and safe your house automation community, or even cost in your residence while you're away. The bonus CD-ROM comprises every kind of cool open resource software program to your domestic automation tasks. "Linux shrewdpermanent houses For Dummies" even contains lists of cool devices to take a look at and nice how one can automate these uninteresting family chores. a wise home's a contented domestic!

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It can be a great choice when you’re looking for a lightweight version of Linux to install on older computer hardware. Choosing computer hardware For the personal video recorder, MythTV, a faster computer is definitely better, and you need a TV tuner card. ) For recording one show at a time and playing it back later, you could probably live with a Duron 800 CPU and 256MB of RAM. 4 GHz CPU and 384MB of RAM. 8 GHz CPU and 512MB of RAM. You probably want at least an 80GB hard drive. The needs of other programs might be significantly less.

The Project WiSH drivers are written in the C computer language. As shown in Figure 2-2, Project WiSH can be used with its x10Web package, which provides you with three graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that run in a Web browser: two depicting your X10 home network and one that displays temperature events reported by the SmartHome TempLinc, a sensor that transmits X10 signals based on temperature data that it collects. These GUIs are written in the Java programming language. org) is a command-line-based program that you can use to control your home’s lights and appliances via X10 devices.

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