Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Home Automation

2008-07-10 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Quoting Ian Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, so far found the Open Home Automation Project, but doesn't seem to > have been updated since July last year. I don't know if it supports your device, but check out Linux MCE (http://www.linuxmce.com/) which is based on Pluto-Home (http://www.plu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Home Automation

2008-07-10 Thread 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 windo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Home Automation

2008-07-10 Thread Philip Stubbs
2008/7/10 Ian Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 prob

[ubuntu-uk] OT: Home Automation

2008-07-10 Thread Ian Pascoe
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 /