I cannot give you a right answer. But I'd like to show how we use Nokia770/N800/N810 as control panel for open source home automation system LinuxMCE. Have a look the Plutohome/LinuxMCE Orbiter project on Maemo garage -
<a href="http://pluto-nokia.garage.maemo.org/index.html">http://pluto-nokia.garage.maemo.org/index.html</a>. Maybe you'll be interested to use it as well :)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/8/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Gille Caluim Anesthesia</b> <<a href="mailto:robert.d.watson@gillecaluim.com">robert.d.watson@gillecaluim.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I'm exploring building a home network appliance using maemo as a foundation and could use a little guidance. <br>This appliance would:<br><ol><li>be wall mounted like a panel pc, no keyboard</li><li>function as a client for network audio server
</li><li>retrieve/display local weather via http request</li><li>using built in video camera, function as video intercom interface for calling other appliances on network.</li><li>function as a room thermostat by measuring temp and controlling hvac relays.
</li><li>whatever else anyone can think of </li></ol>the hardware platform consists of a mini-itx fanless mobo (Intel D201GLY2) connected to a 7" 800x480 lcd with usb touchscreen (lilliput) and using only virtual keyboard.
<br><br>Obviously, many of the above functions have already been taken care of as gtk widgets.<br><br>Please excuse my ignorance but..does this sound like something appropriate for maemo? the website talks about maemo for mobile linux based devices but not really sure where to start on building a custom distro for my hardware? Are there any tutorials for building maemo foundation for non-nokia devices?
<br><br>Robert<br>
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