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Posted by Salman on February 5, 2008, 5:25 pm
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Posted by digi on February 5, 2008, 7:53 pm
Please log in for more thread options Check out the links from this site: http://www.linuxha.com/ Some is info on open source solutions. Some is open platform built on top of a proprietary library. | ||||
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Posted by Dave Houston on February 6, 2008, 7:21 am
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>Are there any open source drivers or control software to communicate
>with Z-Wave, Insteon, X-10 devices, etc? Zensys (Z-Wave) charges a hefty fee for their SDK and requires an NDA so it's unlikely you will find open source for it although there are a couple of vendors who do document the protocols for their Z-Wave controllers (but not for the Z-Wave protocol itself). Insteon doesn't charge much for their SDK but they also have a very restrictive license. The initial license prohibited any discussion of hardware, software, protocol, performance, et al. The current license has softened the restrictions but I'm not sure whether they will allow open source. You can find tons of open source code, drivers, etc. for X-10. You need to be a little more specific about what you want to do and what hardware you want to use. Then you will probably get numerous pointers to the information you seek. http://davehouston.net http://davehouston.org http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/roZetta/ roZetta-subscribe@yahoogroups.com | ||||
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Posted by Dave Houston on February 6, 2008, 7:44 pm
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>The impression I've been getting is that they have not been
>discouraging the Open Source and they know about it. Of course that's >no the same as supporting it but it's still OK. I doubt a project >would last long if someone were to post the entire SDK. That they >might take offense to. Yeah. I thought there was probably some attorney in Southern California who was quite proud of the murky ambiguity of their initial SDK license. I have noticed a few developers have posted short code snippets to the public Insteon forum. Once I'm ready to release roZetta, I'll ask but not before. http://davehouston.net http://davehouston.org http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/roZetta/ roZetta-subscribe@yahoogroups.com | ||||
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Posted by Karl Denninger on February 8, 2008, 6:22 pm
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>> Are there any open source drivers or control software to communicate
>> with Z-Wave, Insteon, X-10 devices, etc? >
> Zensys (Z-Wave) charges a hefty fee for their SDK and requires an NDA so > it's unlikely you will find open source for it although there are a couple > of vendors who do document the protocols for their Z-Wave controllers (but > not for the Z-Wave protocol itself). Zensys can bite me; it is not difficult to figure out the wire protocol for most of the devices and for those where that doesn't work you just pound the shit out of the vendor in public (e.g. Intermatic) and often you can get results (I did with their PIRs) Vendors, if they want to sell product, can document their shit. I don't care what Zensys thinks - I not only won't pay them for their SDK I'm not buying their shit. I'm buying devices from vendors and THEY OWN THE SPECIFICATIONS ON THEM; they both can and should document the wire protocol for their equipment. BTW HomeDaemon's ZWave interface works very well. -- Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) http://www.denninger.net | ||||
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