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

[From: Paul Bloch]

Wow, sounds really great, the universal plug and play sounds sweet.
Let me know about any interface design help I can do, this thing is
freaking sweet. :)  Another person mentioned using the n800 as a robot
controller, it would be great to have an interface for plug and play
robotics as part of the universal controller (plug and play RC remote
controller here we come).

Does anyone have a list of peripherals that could be used for radio
wave and infrared?

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Leandro Sales <leandroal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>> Jussi Kukkonen <jku at o-hand.com>
>> OpenedHand Ltd <http://o-hand.com>
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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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> Computer Science MSc.
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