Smart home automation with Linux
By: Steven Goodwin
Contributors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: The expert's voice in Linux
Publisher: Apress
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781430227793; 9781430227786
Subjects: Home automation; Handbooks, manuals; Linux
Description: "With this book you will turn your house into a smart and automated home. You will learn how to put together all the hardware and software needed for home automation, to control appliances such as your teakettle, CCTV, light switches, and TV...In the realm of media and media control, for instance, you'll learn how you can read TV schedules digitally and use them to program video remotely through email, SMS, or a web page...You'll also learn techniques for streaming music and video from one machine to another, how to give your home its own Twitter and e-mail accounts for sending automatic status reports, and the ability to remotely control the home lights or heating system..."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes index.

"Learn how to control your home from your PC"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Appliance control; title: Appliance hacking; title: Media systems; title: Home is home; title: Communication; title: Data sources; title: Control hubs.