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Ordered more home automation stuff

January 19th, 2008

I like gadgets, probably too much, I also like integrating everything with everything else, so on rolls HA or Home Automation.

I’ve already had a X10 setup for a while that allows me to control lights, I’ve integrated this with Asterisk (with help from Adhearsion) which allows me to control lights from any phone, I also hooked Asterisk up with Amarok.

Well today I ordered some 1-Wire hardware to play with, I didn’t fancy running more cables for the 1-Wire setup and found HA7Net which is a Ethernet to 1-Wire gateway basically, the only problem with it seems to be you need to scrape the embedded web server as it doesn’t provide any kind of web service. I also ordered a 1-Wire temperature sensor to mess around with, and help me make a Ruby gem for the HA7Net.

I’ll try and get around to documenting what hardware I’ve got setup, as I can never remember what’s where and providing what (from VoIP phones, NAS, embedded machines, servers, consoles to a Nabaztag).

Posted by shift Filed in Home Automation

OpenID for mobile use ponderings

January 17th, 2008

Consider this, your browsing the web on your phone with your unlimited data plan and a site requires you to register or login, whats easier to type on the phone? http://rwvhp.com or 07714110660 (my old mobile number), I know different people will prefer one over the other.

It is possible and heres how, VoIP uses ENUM and e.164 to work out the domain name from the phone number. This could also be used to work out the OpenID of the user with very little work and as far as I can tell is just as secure as OpenID as both can suffer from attacks via DNS.

I’m basically just throwing this out there to get some feedback and as a note to myself.

Posted by shift Filed in General Web

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Vincent is a self-confessed geek, who's day job is as a Rails developer, outside of work he likes to play with home automation gadgets. He resides in Newcastle upon Tyne.

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