[maemo-developers] N800 as a home automation/monitoring remote

[From: Leandro Sales]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Jussi Kukkonen <jku at o-hand.com> wrote:
> Mike Ferguson wrote:
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I think I'd like to try to use my N800 as a remote terminal for home
>> automation/monitoring and would like some advice about whether I'm
>> thinking along the right lines.
> ...
>> My initial questions are:
>>
>> First off, does this whole idea seem OK? Any general thoughts or
>> advice?
>
>  Hi Mike,
>
> Have you considered Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)? Using a defined
> protocol and a nice library should simplify the implementation details
> quite a bit: someone else has already figured out how to deal with
> signals, multiple clients, etc... As an additional bonus anything you
> write would be compatible with other UPnP products and software, at
> least if your plans match any of the existing UPnP device/service
> standards: "Lighting Controls", "Security Camera" and "HVAC" should be
> interesting device categories to you.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play
> http://www.upnp.org/standardizeddcps/default.asp
>
>
> If UPnP as an idea sounds good, take a look at GUPnP: It's an
> object-oriented open source framework for creating UPnP devices and
> control points. The server tutorial actually implements a UPnP
> controlled light, so should be interesting to you:
>
> http://gupnp.org/
> http://gupnp.org/docs/gupnp/
>
>
> Oh, and if C feels unpleasant: I'm just about to release Vala bindings
> to GUPnP, so you might be able to skip the unpleasantness (Vala is still
> evolving though, so don't jump in head first).
>
> http://live.gnome.org/Vala/
>
>
> If any of the above made sense to you, join the gupnp mailing list and
> send your ideas, I'm sure you'll get feedback.
>
>  - Jussi
>
>
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In case your choice is to use UPnP, as an alternative that I can
suggest is the BRisa project, a UPnP framework implemented in Python
focusing on maemo platform. For more information
http://garage.maemo.org/projects/brisa.

Cheers,
Leandro.

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Leandro Melo de Sales
Pervasive and Embedded Computing Laboratory
Computer Science MSc.
BRisa and E-Phone Projects Manager
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