HOME AUTOMATION LINKS



UK HOME AUTOMATION PIONEERS

UK Home Automation
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk
- The premier website for Home Automation in the U.K. and deservedly, the first place where anyone interested in home automation in the U.K. should visit. It is the efforts of people like Mark McCall which provide the catalyst for many other UK home automators. Visit this site now!

DIY Home Automation
http://www.diyha.co.uk
- A source of a veritable plethora of plans, circuits and guides to how to undertake various Home Automation projects. Keith Doxey's site is another important port of call for home automators.

StubbyNet Home Automation
http://www.smgsystems.co.uk/ha/
- This site provides an excellent introduction to using the Perl based Misterhouse home automation software.

Black Firs
http://www.blackfirs.com
- A site with details of an extremely comprehensive home automation/home networking house conversion. The results speak for themselves.

Worm Purple
http://www.wormpurple.com
- A large, comprehensive home automator's website.

Nigel Orr
http://www.geocities.com/nigelorr/
- This site has a very good wiring guide for home automation/home networking. This was one of my references when I put my wiring together.

Brian Langley
http://www.bdlhome.com


http://www.gadgetshed.co.uk


James Hoye
http://www.home-automation.info/


Ian Bird
http://www.mollyology.com/WebPages/Home/Index.htm

Home Automation Index
- As well as having an exceedingly large list of home automation websites, this site is also home to the ACE home automation software (which I use on my Windows home automation server).


COMMERCIAL HOME AUTOMATION SUPPLIERS

Lets Automate

Comfort Home Controls

Laser Business Systems Limited

Smart House Magazine

Smarthome.com


LINUX HOME AUTOMATION

Misterhouse
- Misterhouse is an extremely comprehensive and flexible home automation program written in Perl. There is little aspecyt of home automation that it does not cater for, and then it adds a whole lot more functionality on top of this.

Dan Lanciani's X-10 daemons

Neil Cherry's Linux Home Automation
- The definitive web site for links to Linux Home Automation software. Incredibly detailed, and should be the first port of call for anyone requiring Linux home automation software.

MIBFM


iBUTTONS, TINI AND 1-WIRE NETWORKS

iButton.com
- The main Dallas Semiconductor iButton website.

Universal Vinculum Incorporated
- Produce the Nexus and Proto add-on boards for the TINI embedded Java web server.

Taylec Limited
- Produce an add-on board, as well as UK distributors of the Vinculum products, for the TINI embedded Java web server.

http://www.arunet.co.uk/tkboyd/e1dov.htm

1-wire barometer project

Gladstone Family Sensors

http://www.solarbugs.com/home/ibutton.htm

Brian Lane's DigiTemp 1-wire software for Linux

Linux 1-wire weather station

DS-1820 Temperature sensor software

Andrew Burgess's 1-wire software


LEADING EDGE RESEARCH PROJECTS

MIT Project Oxygen

MIT Things that Think

Philips Research

Philips Design

The Orange Home