At the forthcoming RailsConf in Las Vegas, Fernand Galiana will present about R-House, a Rails-based home automation solution. See the session description for a bit more information. Looking forward to learning what this is all about.
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Home Automation
Books
Articles
- Learn how to automate your home theatre in the Popular Science "Genius Guide to Home Entertainment."
- How to use Bluetooth proximity data for home automation, at O'Reilly Digital Media.
- Keep an eye on your home, an article for the MacDevCenter.
- Applying technology to the performance art of conjuring.
- Intro to open source home automation, for O'Reilly's ONLamp.com website.
- Use an old Mac for home automation. A MacWorld magazine article.
Appearances
- Magic Chicago
Conjuring Performance (Oct 2011) - McBride Mystery School TV
Conjuring Performance (May 2011) - Magic Collectors' Weekend
Conjuring Performance, Chicago. (May 2011) - McBride Mystery School TV
Conjuring Performance (March 2011) - Magic & Meaning Conference
Conjuring Performance and Lecture, Las Vegas. (Oct 2010) - Magic Cabaret
Conjuring Performance, Chicago. (July 2010) - Magic Cabaret
Conjuring Performance, Chicago. (April 2010) - Magic Chicago
Conjuring Performance, Chicago. (July 2010) - Magic Chicago
Conjuring performance, Chicago. (Feb 2010) - Magic Cabaret
Conjuring performance, Chicago. (Dec 2009)
This sounds really really cool. I've been thinking about writing something in ruby to control my Insteon devices. Insteon is controllable through a HTTP API (and I understand it). So it would really be a matter of using Hpricot to parse out the response then converting that response to objects, right?
I hope that Fernand has broken his code out so that the home automation part is a gem with a rails app on top of it. If that's the case, I can combine his code with my media center library (for XBMC) and have dimming lights when a movie starts with some ease.
Neat!
-Nicholas Rowe
Posted by: Nicholas Rowe | March 03, 2009 at 01:04 AM
Hi Gordon,
Thanks for your post about Rhouse! The gem is out there on github (git://github.com/derailed/rhouse.git) and the presentation slides are on slideshare (http://www.slideshare.net/derailed/rhouse). The code is still work in progress but should be enough to get started...
-Fernand
Posted by: Fernand | May 12, 2009 at 10:40 AM