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Home Automation Software? julvr 02-05-08
Posted by julvr on February 5, 2008, 11:22 am
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Hi there. I am looking into getting some home automation software
that I can customize to a good degree. I got homeseer trial, but I
find it both clunky (the interface is very slow), and expensive. I'm
wondering if there's any good open source programs (preferably written
in C or a derivative) that can control my Insteon power-linc, and USB-
UART. I don't need web access, just to be able to send and recieve
commands, and to be able to run custom scripts when I get an event.

Thanks

John



Posted by Frank Mc Alinden on February 6, 2008, 1:26 am
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Hi John

Dont think theres xPL support for Insteon But it does have an Plugin
for the USBUIRT... and its FREE........Have a look here

http://www.xplmonkey.com/

HTH
Frank


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Frank Mc Alinden

Posted by Karl Denninger on February 8, 2008, 6:17 pm
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julvr wrote:
> Hi there. I am looking into getting some home automation software
> that I can customize to a good degree. I got homeseer trial, but I
> find it both clunky (the interface is very slow), and expensive. I'm
> wondering if there's any good open source programs (preferably written
> in C or a derivative) that can control my Insteon power-linc, and USB-
> UART. I don't need web access, just to be able to send and recieve
> commands, and to be able to run custom scripts when I get an event.
>
> Thanks
>
> John
>
>

HomeDaemon is open source - it doesn't support Insteon, but does support
ZWave, and you could add a module to do whatever else you wanted.

See my home page for the link.

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Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net)
http://www.denninger.net

Posted by Markus Baertschi on February 11, 2008, 6:12 am
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julvr wrote:
> find it both clunky (the interface is very slow), and expensive. I'm
> wondering if there's any good open source programs (preferably written
> in C or a derivative) that can control my Insteon power-linc, and USB-
> UART. I don't need web access, just to be able to send and recieve
> commands, and to be able to run custom scripts when I get an event.

Have a look at Misterhouse (misterhouse.sourceforge.net). It's written
in perl and has support for about every device available.

Markus

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