[maemo-developers] Universal Control for CE/HA? (maemo)

[From: Jed]

This is it, no more spam from me, thanks to everyone that's offered 
their thoughts. Hopefully I'll get a few more but if not, tis all good!

If you look at the attached diagram I'm hoping to devise a device that 
acts a central controller for consumer electronics & home automation.
I want a hand-held to interface with it, this hand-held would ideally 
also have IR integrated, but it's not imperative as Wifi would be used 
mostly.

So far the best solution I've found is this
http://openremote.org/display/HOME/OpenRemote

You don't have to use their reference hardware but something low 
power/profile like it I think would be ideal.
It's critical you have JRE + Apache Tomcat installed/configured 
properly, I'd run this software on top of Ubuntu or maybe LinuxMCE.

I was also thinking of integrating the entire thing into my existing 
HTPC/PVR but I'm not sure yet, it might be better to have a 
dedicated/separate machine. This controller would be able to 
send/receive via; Internet, wifi, Ethernet, IR, X10, proprietary RF, & 
numerous other CE/HA related protocols.

Interested in other peoples ideas, have you tried something similar, or 
have you heard of a better platform then openremote?

Cheers,
Jed

> 
> CE = consumer electronics, HA = home automation.
> 
> I'd prefer to use my existing Axim x50v but so far I haven't found
> good Linux support for it. There is an android port, but progress is
> slow & ultimately will be too limited 'I think'.
> 
>>> Jed wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering if there's any good Universal Remote software for CE 
>>>> &or
>>>> HA being developed in this ecosystem?
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know of anything under way or a related Linux project that
>>>> could be re-adapted to it?
>>>>
>>>> I have something "roughly" like this visualised... (see attached txt 
>>>> file)
>>>>
>>>> I have an old Axim X50v which android is being ported to atm...
>>>> But progress is slow so I may have to find a better supported device 
>>>> soon.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts/ideas/advice greatly appreciated!
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Jed
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