Ruby Rails-based home automation coming?
February 28, 2009
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.
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