I have the following controllers available to me: ADI Ocelot
(upgraded CPU-XA), X10's CM11A, X10's CM17A, X10's CP-290, CCC's
HCS II and Marrick's LynX-10. In addition I have a WX200/WM918
Weather Station, a handful of Dallas DS1820 onewire temperature
chips and a number of micro-controllers that can run on an RS485
network. I found the HAN and S.N.A.P protocols on the 'net
and they look very usable. In addition you can find the PLM (Power Line
Modem). I recently purchased 2 of these and now need time to
build them, test them and write software.
The Linux Home Automation project is a bit of a
misnomer. It's really meant for use under any Unix like operating
system. I fully intend to keep the source code as portable as
possible. The intent is for the project to create a daemon that
interfaces between a plain command line interface and a Home
Automation controller. Currently most of the controllers I have
attach to a serial port I also have a WM918 Wather station, and a
bunch of Dallas DS1820 temperature chips. Even though X10 may
start out as being the primary communication methods others will
be explored, such as the PLM (power line modem), CeBus and
LONworks. We can also attach RS485 networks to the serial port and
create devices whihch follow a standard protocol. The Linux box
would be the master while the remote devices the slaves.
I'm fully aware of other projects such as Mister House and I
think that this project can compliment such a project. Our main
task in not to build a user interface (though this may lead to
such sub projects) but instead to create the a standard ASCII CLI
which is accessible via TCP/IP.
02/01 - Today I received an email from the Embedded Linux
Journal notifying me of that the Linux Home Automation
Project is one of the Finalists in their Embedded Linux Contest. Each
finalist will receive: BlueCat Linux Development Kit,
Tri-M Systems MZ104 PC/104 Board, On Board ZF Linux Devices'
MachZ Chip and Phoenix BIOS in Flash, M-Systems 4 Megabyte
DiskOnChip Millennium (Flash Disk), MZ104 Cable Kit for connecting
to peripherals, 32MB SO DIMM (DRAM), and an O'Reilly and
Associates book, Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++. This
is so cool!
I've also spent a bit of time working on an X10 sniffer using a
modified TW523. I'm in the process of writing an article for the
project which will fully document everything from the X10 protocol
to the PC software. Currently it doesn't transmit X10 but that's
just because I haven't had time to sit down and write the
routines. I'll attempt to do that at a later date. Right now I'm
working on whether I have a problem with the sniffer or I have a
valid X10 problem (like a bad CM11A).
02/01 - Today I received an email from the Embedded Linux
Journal notifying me of that the Linux Home Automation
Project is one of the Finalists in their Embedded Linux Contest. Each
finalist will receive: BlueCat Linux Development Kit,
Tri-M Systems MZ104 PC/104 Board, On Board ZF Linux Devices'
MachZ Chip and Phoenix BIOS in Flash, M-Systems 4 Megabyte
DiskOnChip Millennium (Flash Disk), MZ104 Cable Kit for connecting
to peripherals, 32MB SO DIMM (DRAM), and an O'Reilly and
Associates book, Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++. This
is so cool!
I've also spent a bit of time working on an X10 sniffer using a
modified TW523. I'm in the process of writing an article for the
project which will fully document everything from the X10 protocol
to the PC software. Currently it doesn't transmit X10 but that's
just because I haven't had time to sit down and write the
routines. I'll attempt to do that at a later date. Right now I'm
working on whether I have a problem with the sniffer or I have a
valid X10 problem (like a bad CM11A).
02/01 - Today I received an email from the Embedded Linux
Journal notifying me of that the Linux Home Automation
Project is one of the Finalists in their Embedded Linux Contest. Each
finalist will receive: BlueCat Linux Development Kit,
Tri-M Systems MZ104 PC/104 Board, On Board ZF Linux Devices'
MachZ Chip and Phoenix BIOS in Flash, M-Systems 4 Megabyte
DiskOnChip Millennium (Flash Disk), MZ104 Cable Kit for connecting
to peripherals, 32MB SO DIMM (DRAM), and an O'Reilly and
Associates book, Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++. This
is so cool!
I've also spent a bit of time working on an X10 sniffer using a
modified TW523. I'm in the process of writing an article for the
project which will fully document everything from the X10 protocol
to the PC software. Currently it doesn't transmit X10 but that's
just because I haven't had time to sit down and write the
routines. I'll attempt to do that at a later date. Right now I'm
working on whether I have a problem with the sniffer or I have a
valid X10 problem (like a bad CM11A).
02/01 - Today I received an email from the Embedded Linux
Journal notifying me of that the Linux Home Automation
Project is one of the Finalists in their Embedded Linux Contest. Each
finalist will receive: BlueCat Linux Development Kit,
Tri-M Systems MZ104 PC/104 Board, On Board ZF Linux Devices'
MachZ Chip and Phoenix BIOS in Flash, M-Systems 4 Megabyte
DiskOnChip Millennium (Flash Disk), MZ104 Cable Kit for connecting
to peripherals, 32MB SO DIMM (DRAM), and an O'Reilly and
Associates book, Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++. This
is so cool!
I've also spent a bit of time working on an X10 sniffer using a
modified TW523. I'm in the process of writing an article for the
project which will fully document everything from the X10 protocol
to the PC software. Currently it doesn't transmit X10 but that's
just because I haven't had time to sit down and write the
routines. I'll attempt to do that at a later date. Right now I'm
working on whether I have a problem with the sniffer or I have a
valid X10 problem (like a bad CM11A).
02/01 - Today I received an email from the Embedded Linux
Journal notifying me of that the Linux Home Automation
Project is one of the Finalists in their Embedded Linux Contest. Each
finalist will receive: BlueCat Linux Development Kit,
Tri-M Systems MZ104 PC/104 Board, On Board ZF Linux Devices'
MachZ Chip and Phoenix BIOS in Flash, M-Systems 4 Megabyte
DiskOnChip Millennium (Flash Disk), MZ104 Cable Kit for connecting
to peripherals, 32MB SO DIMM (DRAM), and an O'Reilly and
Associates book, Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++. This
is so cool!
I've also spent a bit of time working on an X10 sniffer using a
modified TW523. I'm in the process of writing an article for the
project which will fully document everything from the X10 protocol
to the PC software. Currently it doesn't transmit X10 but that's
just because I haven't had time to sit down and write the
routines. I'll attempt to do that at a later date. Right now I'm
working on whether I have a problem with the sniffer or I have a
valid X10 problem (like a bad CM11A).
10/31/00 - Happy Halloween (for those that celebrate), I've been
busy updating the Source Forge pages and trying to get this
project back on track. These pages still need more work and in the
next few weeks will better reflect the ideas and goals of the
project. I'm also again working on the source code to the HCSd,
so I really am back working on the project. I've gotten lot of
support from family and community (thanks everyone).
I'm also investigating Intel's Intel's Linux Universal Plug-n-Play SDK
(UPnP). From the activity on the mail list and the members I think
that this will be an important protocol in the HA field.
10/06/00 - After a long quiet sabatical I'm back. I've been busy
mending my health, changing my career, and () put
some more HA infrastructure in place. I've purchased a ton of
equipment for my LHA lab and I've even made new acquaintances in
the field of HA. I've found that I can write articles on HA that
can be used to pay for some of this equipment. Now I'm updating
this page with a better description, purpose and status of the
project. So you should see the page begin to change in small
increments over the next few days. I've also spent a bit of time
learning PHP (thanks Jay).
08/22/00 - It's summer in the North Eastern US and I'm trying to
enjoy it. So that's the reason for no updates. This project is
not forgotten, so far on the mail list we have about 77 members.
October should see a resurgence in list activity as I begin to
slow down my outdoor activities (I will be bicycling into
December). On October 2nd I will be giving a presentation on the
Linux HA project and my views of HA in general in Scotch Plains NJ
(email me for further details). I will be making the presentation
available via the web and will use that information to update
these pages.
03/19/00 - I've opened the mail list up and invited people to join
I'm hoping there will be enough developers to give this project
the royal kick in the bottom it requires to get it moving. So far
13 people have joined. I am surprised at the number of people who
have joined in such a short time. It looks like I have a lot of
work to do to get my CVS knowledge up to speed.
03/05/00 - I just registerd the mail list and will port the info in
the next few ways on how to access it and what it is for. My head is
still spinning from the sugestions for this project. The Linux HA
project has great potential but promises to be a handful!. It is
beginning to look like it could be more than on package. A few people
have already told me that my current code is going in the wrong
direction. That's fine (exactly what I need and why I started this
project). I've corrected the email address below (sorry :-( about
that!)
02/06/00 - I just registered this project, in the coming weeks I
hope to have all the project files loaded and ready to go. The my
current software started off life as Dan Lanciani's X10d for the
CM11A. His ideas are what started me on this project. This can be
a very large project. There are lots of different controllers out
there. I beleive I've created a pretty good starting shell but I
need help to hone the code so it is more effecient and I
definitely need help with getting access to other controllers (I
have a limited budget). I beleive that the client software can run
from just about any machine or even micro-controllers that run
TCP/IP. In the end the clients can be on any OS that has internet
access. I've already created client software in Bourne shell code,
C, and Perl. C++, Pythons, LISP/Scheme or Emacs are not out of the
question either. I'll try to provide more detail as time
passes. Currently it's all in the my head. Now I just have to 'put
it on paper', so to speak.
