FLOSS Weekly 133

FLOSS Weekly Episode 133

"LinuxMCE"Hosts: Randal Schwartz, Scott Wilkinson Guest: Thomas Cherryhomes Recorded: September 1, 2010 Published: September 2, 2010 Duration: 43:56 Transcript Previous episode – Next episode

Contents 1 Guest(s) 2 Topics 3 External Links 4 Questions from the audience 5 Sponsors 5.1 Hover 6 Production Information

Guest(s)

Thomas Cherryhomes for LinuxMCE

Topics

LinuxMCE is a complete smart home platform combining lighting control, media control, climate control, security and telecomm for the entire home in a single package.

• Uses lots of open source components
  • Myth TV
  • MPlayer
  • Asterisk (see FLOSS Weekly 38)
  • more
• Smart about knowing what needs to be run for each functionality
  • e.g. Turn on the TV to watch shows
• Uses Pluto Storage for sharing media
  • Automatically finds and configures media locations and storage throughout the network
  • Presents all the different locations as one media library
• Follow Me
  • Presence Detection
  • Track your bluetooth phone between different bluetooth connections
  • Turn off media as you leave a room, turn it on in the room you go into and pickup where you left off
• DCE (Data Commands and Events)
  • Base message bus
  • Any device can send to any other device in the system
• Standards
  • X10 - automation standard, old from 1970s used by lots of stuff
  • Zed - new, up and coming automation standard
  • KNX - heavy duty lighting and such
• Entirely community supported

External Links

Questions from the audience

Sponsors

Hover

• Floss.hover.com
• Hover #2
• ad times: 0:38-0:50 and 4:06-5:41

Production Information

• Edited by: Tony
• Notes:

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