[Novalug] Open Source Alarm?

[Miguel Gonzalez Castaños]

Nick Danger wrote:
>
> I had an alarm guy come to the house last night and look over some of 
> my options. The entire time I kept thinking that other then the 24 hr 
> monitoring they do (the service part), I can do the hardware part 
> easily with a SBC that has a decent digital I/O board on it. That got 
> me searching google for linux based alarms. Or even non-linux based 
> alarms that I can at least interface with. Certain things they are not 
> going to monitor (water in basement, power outage...) and thats easy 
> enough to do with home automation, but what about the alarm part?
In my previous company I worked a lot about home automation.

The idea was to sell gateways that let to monitor some stuff and
automate some things in your house. You could create alarms to text you
if someone gets in your house, or there is a gas or water leak. Also you
could control by text messages some simple commands (turn on heating or
watering).

Also you could simulate presence turning on lights or a TV and things
like that.

You should look at X10 hardware, which is possibly the cheapest
alternative to other enterprise home automation buses.

There are some websites about using X10 in Linux

Miguel