Smart Home Automation with Linux- P1

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Smart Home Automation with Linux- P1THE EXPERT’S VOICE ® IN LINUXSmart HomeAutomation withLinux Learn how to control your home from your PCSteven Goodwin Smart Home Automation with Linux■■■Steven GoodwinSmart Home Automation with LinuxCopyright © 2010 by Steven GoodwinAll rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrievalsystem, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher.ISBN-13 (pbk): 978-1-4302-2778-6ISBN-13 (electronic): 978-1-4302-2779-3Printed and bound in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1Trademarked names may appear in this book. Rather than use a trademark symbol with everyoccurrence of a trademarked name, we use the names only in an editorial fashion and to the benefit ofthe trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark.Java™ and all Java-based marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., inthe US and other countries. Apress, Inc., is not affiliated with Sun Microsystems, Inc., and this book waswritten without endorsement from Sun Microsystems, Inc. Publisher and President: Paul Manning Lead Editor: Duncan Parkes Development Editor: Matt Wade Technical Reviewers: Steve Potts and Michael Still Editorial Board: Clay Andres, Steve Anglin, Mark Beckner, Ewan Buckingham, Gary Cornell, Jonathan Gennick, Jonathan Hassell, Michelle Lowman, Matthew Moodie, Duncan Parkes, Jeffrey Pepper, Frank Pohlmann, Douglas Pundick, Ben Renow-Clarke, Dominic Shakeshaft, Matt Wade, Tom Welsh Coordinating Editor: Anne Collett Copy Editor: Kim Wimpsett Production Support: Patrick Cunningham Indexer: Julie Grady Artist: April Milne Cover Designer: Anna IshenkoDistributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 233 Spring Street, 6th Floor,New York, NY 10013. Phone 1-800-SPRINGER, fax 201-348-4505, e-mail orders-ny@springer-sbm.com, orvisit www.springeronline.com.For information on translations, please e-mail rights@apress.com, or visit www.apress.com.Apress and friends of ED books may be purchased in bulk for academic, corporate, or promotional use.eBook versions and licenses are also available for most titles. For more information, reference ourSpecial Bulk Sales–eBook Licensing web page at www.apress.com/info/bulksales.The information in this book is distributed on an “as is” basis, without warranty. Although everyprecaution has been taken in the preparation of this work, neither the author(s) nor Apress shall haveany liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be causeddirectly or indirectly by the information contained in this work.The source code for this book is available to readers at www.apress.com. You will need to answerquestions pertaining to this book in order to successfully download the code.To Mum and Dad for the first automated home I had, where clothes washed themselves and food cooked itself!Contents at a Glance About the Author ...................................................................................................... xii About the Technical Reviewers ............................................................................... xiii Acknowledgments ................................................................................................... xiv Introduction .............................................................................................................. xv ■Chapter 1: Appliance Control ................................................................................... 1 ■Chapter 2: Appliance Hacking ............................................................................... 49 ■Chapter 3: Media Systems ..................................................................................... 85 ■Chapter 4: Home Is Home .................................................................................... 117 ■Chapter 5: Communication .................................................................................. 149 ■Chapter 6: Data Sources ...................................................................................... 185 ■Chapter 7: Control Hubs....................................................................................... 215 Index ....................................................................................................................... 269ivContentsAbout the Author ...................................................................................................... xiiAbout the Technical Reviewers .................................................. ...