[asterisk-users] Is there any Asterisk controllable thermostat?

[Doug Crompton]

John,

 Two questions on your comments....

 I have no seen an Insteon computer controller similiar to the old bottle
rocket. Is there such a device? I am thinking of getting an Insteon
starter kit bit I have so many X10 devices it will be awhie before, if
ever, that I get it all changed over. Many items, like spotlights, are not
available in Insteon.

I would be interested in the Ethernet MWI. I am using many phones on an
SPA3000 fxs and I can't seem to find an MWI on an analog phone that works
with Asterisk and the SPA3000, although I have been told that there are
some that do??? The quick answer would be to put a SIP phone with MWI
where your wife wants to be able to see the light. I have a Budgtone 200
and MWI works fine on it. Of course then you have styling and color issues
that might not past the muster.

Doug

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, John Marvin wrote:

>
> I would suggest that people who don't already have an investment in home
> automation equipment should look at Insteon rather than X10. Insteon is
> a next generation version of X10 that provides backwards compatibility
> with X10. The devices are a little more expensive, but not as expensive
> as some of the other alternatives. Insteon provides 2 way communication
> and is a lot more reliable than X10.
>
> If you already have an investment in X10 devices you can slowly convert
> to Insteon, since Insteon provides backwards compatibility, i.e. X10
> controllers can control Insteon devices and Insteon controllers can
> control X10 devices, however you won't get all the advantages of Insteon
> until you have Insteon controllers controlling Insteon devices.
>
> For people with some soldering and basic circuit design skills, you may
> want to consider using ethernet as a home automation bus for some
> things. I love the Olimex PIC WEB and PIC Mini Web development boards
> (they cost $49.95 and $39.95 respectively). They have an ethernet port
> and an expansion connector for the available PIC I/O pins. Microchip
> provides a free C compiler for Pic processors, and they also have an
> open source networking stack that works on the Olimex boards. So with a
> ribbon cable connector and a small breadboard with a few IC's and/or
> driver transistors you can build a device that responds to commands via
> the network (or via a built in web server) from your Asterisk server
> that does about any task you can think of. Lots of fun ... I'm currently
> building a voicemail indicator (my wife didn't like me taking her
> answering machine away with the blinking lights when we switched to
> Asterisk voicemail) using a PIC Web board. Next project will be a web
> based sprinkler controller.
>
> John
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