Linux Smart Homes for Dummies

Neil Cherry - Collection For Dummies

364 pages, parution le 11/08/2006

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Résumé

Make your home safer and more efficient with Linux

Linux home automation has never been simpler or more fun!

A smart home's a happy home! Teach yours lots of new tricks with Linux. Not only can you arrange automation for lights, appliances, and watering the lawn, you can also build your own TV recorder, pipe music throughout the house, set up a severe weather alert,and control everything from your Web browser.

Discover how to:

Set up a wireless access point and build a network

Build a software-powered smart phone system

Control lights and appliances

Have your house monitor the weather

Access your home automation system online

L'auteur - Neil Cherry

Neil Cherry has been working with computers, computer electronics, and software since 1978. He has been playing with X10 since 1982. He began automating his home in 1992 when a friend gave him an X10 computer interface, and he started the Linux Home Automation Web site (www.linuxha.com) in 1996. When he's not riding his bicycle or playing with home automation, he works for AT&T Research Lab South, Middletown, NJ, as a Test Engineer. You can reach him by e-mail at linuxha@linuxha.com.

Sommaire

Introduction
Bringing the Future Home
Connecting Multiple Computers without the Wires
Entertaining Your Brain with a Little Help from Linux
Keeping a Linux Eye on the Sky
X10-ding Your Environment with Home Automation
Controlling and Securing Your Automation Network
The Part of Tens
Appendix
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Wiley
Auteur(s)	Neil Cherry
Collection	For Dummies
Parution	11/08/2006
Nb. de pages	364
Format	19 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	589g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780764598234
ISBN13	978-0-7645-9823-4