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Home automation round up

Here’s a round up of just some of the home automation projects, kits and more found on MAKE! If you do home automation, post what you’ve made, used or bought in the comments!

You could make your own “proximity based power system”

Make Pt0861
Make – Volume 08 – Smart HVAC (Page 140).


MIDAS: Homemade Dorm Room Home Automation System.

 Md Stamp
Home automation with the Basic Stamp.

Experimenta
Use old pda as interface for home automation.

Make Pt0860
Homebrew Home Automation Project.


Rackbox – Extreme home automation.

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Wireless Webcam For Homebrew Automation/Security Project.

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Home Automation hacks (Wiki). A couple cool hacks here – X10RfConfiguration – essentially converts the fairly unreliable powerline X10 to a more reliable (under many circumstances) RF X10 at virtually no cost and homebrew X10 signal analyzer – rather than measure signal strength, this homebrew signal analyzer (built with a lego mindstorms RCX) actually counts the transmissions that arrive at the destination X10 sensor, for comparison to the source sensor. Missing transmissions indicate reliability problems.

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The Open Source Gift Guide: Open source hardware … Here’s some great opensource DIY Home automation software, written in Perl with a Web interface. For windows or Linux/unix. It also works with the One Wire Weather station posted a few days ago.” MisterHouse is an open source home automation program. It’s fun, it’s free, and it’s entirely geeky. Written in Perl, it fires events based on time, web, socket, voice, and serial data. It currently runs on Windows 95/98/NT/2k/XP and on most Unix based platforms, including Linux and Mac OSX. $ Just need to buy/eBay the home automation hardware, like x10 (easily found for cheap).

Make Pt0863
Smarthome’s INSTEONNetLinc devices (works with iPhone).

4 thoughts on “Home automation round up

  1. Steev says:

    http://www.minervahome.net/

    Similar in purpose to Mr House, but this one is more about dictating open interfaces, allowing any input module (e.g. web, sms phone) to talk to any device (PVR, light switch).

  2. Plasma2002 says:

    http://www.plasma2002.com/epb

    The Emergency Party Button was made using a lot of X10 modules, the ‘heyu’ open source interface for linux, and a lot of perl :)

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