[Wolves] OT? Open source house alarms

Mike Hingley computa_mike at hotmail.com
Mon Jul 20 22:47:13 UTC 2009


I seem to recall there being some Linux Alarm systems ... I'll have a
look around...
On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 18:09 +0200, Lee Parkes wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've been thinking about house alarms recently and wondered if anyone had any
> experience or knowledge of homebrew house alarms, especially ones that use
> open source software and/or hardware. Ideally I'd like a portable and easily
> extendable.
> 
> It seems that it might be reasonably easy to do with a mix of electronics (the
> Arduino platform springs to mind), and a few cheap sensors and maybe ones from 
> left over alarm systems, and Linux.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Lee
> 




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