[Wolves] OT? Open source house alarms

[Mike Hingley]

Ok - Had a scope around - seems that there are a couple of competing
home automation standards out there - X10 and 


There is a Perl project called Mister House - @
http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/  You might be able to use this to
script what happens based on sensor input.

I think there are some issues with X10 in terms of how reliable it is -
but you may be able to glean some more info from
http://www.linuxha.com/athome/index.html#Projects 

I'd be interested in your results - particularly if it were something
that the LUG could implement easily.  What do we think? This sort of
investigative project work seems ideal for some collaborative
working...  

Other thing to consider is the alarm board running the linux kernel
(naturally).  Could we use something like an arduino for this or
something similar?

 Mike


On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 23:47 +0100, Mike Hingley wrote:
> 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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