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Is XPL an option? That way you would have an universal home automation interface. Can be used for both sending and receiving data.
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never heard of xpl, so i have no idea about it.
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Hey xtermin8r,
I think a bunch of people would be interested in your script. How easy or hard would it be to use your script with consumer home automation products (ie. X10, Insteon, Zwave)?
I just bought a house and I'm looking at LinuxMCE to do my home automation bidding, but it is ugly and doesn't have as nice of a scraper as XBMC. So if XBMC could control my home... that would be amazing.
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Is it possible to have a forum area where requests for $ are made- to accelerate dev of certain obscure features or perhaps stuff not on the roadmap? Maybe via donation mechanism, and some small amount goes to XBMC core team in any exchange?
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The last time I remember bounties being brought up, there was a resounding, "FUCK NO!" from most of the team. I'm pretty sure that feeling is still strong. Bounties only promote feature creep and poor coding. They have no place in FLOSS.
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Well that does make sense. sorry for the suggestion.
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That's a very sensible policy on bounties.
Regarding home automation... Now I know that's not in the published vision. But, I just came over from LinuxMCE, and home automation is 50% of my wants/desires. The other 50% is the media viewing (which XBMC would appear to do much better, but I'm yet to do my first install...).
I have a bunch of Z-wave devices, and an Intermatic USB Z-wave controller. I want to control some lights, both directly and on timers (and, later, as a result of a PIR tripping on my security system). Has anyone done this? Z-Wave support on LinuxMCE is currently very flaky (I had lights randomly going on and off, and the Z-Wave driver repeatedly crashing).
Also, I'm installing a GE CaddX security/fire alarm. It has a serial interface for bi-directional control/reporting to a computer. Has anyone integrated one of these into XBMC?
If not, or if partially, I'm happy to do what I can to help. Just give me a while to get up to speed.
Thanks!
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Hrm i just noticed that you are trying to integrate these from scratch. Good luck with it. Especially with security systems.
Alot of manufacturers require NDA's signed before they hand over API's. I personally haven't done the GE CADDX but we have integrated the GE Networx NX-8, GE Advent, DSC Powerxxx, DSC IT-100, DSC Maxsys, Elk M1, HAI Omni/Omni Pro, Honeywell Ademco Cista & Honewell Apex Destiny.
In regards to lighting we have our own zigbee based lighting devices for dimming & relay based on/off control. We also integrate 3rd party lighting systems such as Lutron, Clipsal Cbus, Dynalite, HPM iControl.
AV devices are relatively simple to integrate. Whether it be IR based, RS232 based or IP based. IP based AV devices are a bit harder to integrate but its just a matter of time.
Personally i have created Control4/XBMC powered cinema's where the lights turn down, curtains open, projector turns on, receiver turns on and sets itself to the right input and XBMC plays the movie you've selected on your touchscreen remote.
I could rave on forever about what you can or can't do with the system but at the end of the day its really upto you imagination.