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I've removed a good chunk the othe updates and moved them here so I can have a history of the changes. Also to lesson the clutter of the main page.
08/15 - VSCP - Very Simple Control Protocol - The VSCP protocol, a very simple and free protocol for SOHO automation tasks. It seems to interface to CAN and the EDA sourceforge has been combined with VSCP. I'll clean that up and combine the 2.
07/27 - Frank Hitzel's VIMMS - Visual Module Management System. frank has built a system powered by the ATMEL AT90S2313 micro controller and a Linux PC that controls a digital I/O interface and hardware watchdog interface, a stepper motor controller and a RS232 multiplexer.
07/16 - OCAN - Open-CAN is a device driver for the Intel 82527 CAN controllers. It's quite lightweight and is equipped with a tiny hardware abstraction layer to support different hardware mountings of the chip.
07/13 - I'm working on a howto for my use of the Floppy Firewall and it's packages. So far it's nothing more than a description of what I'm doing.
07/03 - manic_marv has pointed out that I had his name was wrong (now corrected) and that he has updated his code and included a 50 Hz vesrion. I've also finally started to add the Parallel Port section.
06/23 - I just noticed that I didn't have the link to manic_marv's creation. He has created replacement firmware for the CM11A. It's currently up to v0.4. It may not do everything yet but at least it's a step forward.
06/22 - OK, so I've been bad! It's summertime in the Northern hemisphere and I tend to do outdoor kinds of things. I've been spending a lot of time working on Etherboot, Floppy Firewall, Firewall Builder (Beta) and I just started on Asterisk and VoIP. Those aren't the outdoor things. The outdoor things include a double century, additional stone patio work, pool work, etc.. But I've really needed to up this page so here it is:
DRACONi Automation - aims to be a home automation and digital entertainment control package. It's designed to be modular, meaning new kinds of functionality can be added easily. It supports the CM11A/CK11A, Applied Digital (ADI) Ocelot/Leopard/Leopard II Home Automation Controllers, XMMS Music Player, and Festival Speech Synthesis Software.
05/20 - Sorry for the long delay in updating these pages. I've been a bit busy with lots of other stuff and nice weather ;-). Over the next few weeks I'll try to get the pages caught up (notice that the info from November to February is missing). I had to shutdown a bunch of computers at home and I don't have all the updates on the one that is running. Nothing has been destroyed just energy prices as way too high for all of my experiments. If you think this is bad you should see my HA system which was also completely shutdown. I currently have the ADI Ocelot up and running as the sole HA controller. Also I'll try to convert as much of the html to xhtml 1.0 while I'm at it.
The best news I currently have is that the HCS_C hardware is up and running! Now it's time to build an OS. This will be an interesting and challenging project that has the promise of some very interesting things for my HA system. More to follow ...
05/12 - Sorry I haven't been posting anything new lately. Been busy with various projects and work (Spring in the northern hemisphere is always a nice time to do other things). Also I had to shutdown most of my HA equipment and I'm now in the process of consolidating it. More to follow ...
02/09 - I think we have enough parallel port projects to warrant giving them their own little section. So introducing the Parallel Port section (yeah) and the newest addition to that section, the PPort Sourceforge project. Just one thing that drives me nuts about this project (and others like it). Why doesn't the PPort Home Page point to anything useful?! If someone were to go and search Sourceforge for this type of project they'd just find the project summary page. Not very useful if you ask me!
01/14 - Wired has a story, Welcome to the Broadband Home of the Future - Not really home automation or a futuristic home but a bit interesting.
01/13 - Dave Houston has his BX24-AHT pages back up at BX24-AHT Page
01/11 - An interesting link was posted to the MisterHouse message list. It appears that there is a Onewire File System (owfs) which will allows 1-wire devices to appear like files in a directory. Very cool!
01/10 - I've added my modified TW523 page back again. It's got some useful info for research when building X10 devices.
01/09 - Another Slashdot article about TiVo's New offerings . Tivo/DVD Recorder, TivoToGo where TiVo users with Home Media Option will be able to transfer files off their TiVo onto their PC and XM Radio for TiVo. It will be things like Tivo that will make it easier to add other home automation offerings to customers.
Wired magazinehas a few interesting articles on Home Entertainment (and by association Home Automation). The first: Home Is Where Intel Wants to Be - the short of it is consumers want to simplify the entertainment stack (VCR, DVD, Stereo, CD, Amp and TV) and Intel think it can deliver (big screen no less) and at an affordable price. The next article: Future Home Full of Web Wonders - I think you've just got to read this. :-)
01/07 - Found 2 more interesting sites. The first is the French site: Logiclic - Bruno Regnier's site, he uses the TINI controller for home automation, source and electronic diagrams are available.
The other site is Francisco Castro's YASP (Yet Another Scalable Protocol). He uses Microchip PIC and has the source code and schematic available.
01/03 - An article about Pluto appeared on Slashdot (no I'm not going to link to the article too much yapping not much to say!). It's a complete home control system to incorporate all 5 major home electronic systems including security, telecommunications, home automation, entertainment, and personal computing. It looks like a nice system but at $15K (US) it seems a little steep and I'm not sure I like having everything running in one box. Now I can do all these things (I don't have the video setup and I don't have a PBX, yet) with MisterHouse but it's not a consumer setup. So you decide.
12/29 - Steve Haehnichen X10 Comparison - A really interesting look at various X10 transceivers, guts of various devices and the burnt remains of 2 UL listed devices that fail with about 50% load! Yikes.
12/28 - I've created a new section called Temporary links. Basically it's for news items that may not stick around for long periods of time but may be of interest to some of this web sites readers. The first group of links come from a Slashdot article on Home Network appliances (such as your oven, refrigerator, washing machine, etc). Some useful links and info can be found in the article.
I've added SCO to the litigious bastards list.
