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CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK PANTONE 123 C BOOKS FOR PROFESSIONALS BY PROFESSIONALS ® THE EXPERT’S VOICE ® IN LINUX Companion eBook Available Dear Reader, Cross-Platform Game Programming Game Developer’s Open Source Handbook Steven Goodwin THE APRESS ROADMAP Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Fourth Edition Smart Home Automation with Linux Beginning the Linux Command Line Practical MythTV: Building a PVR and Media Center PC Beginning SUSE Linux, Second Edition Automating Linux and Unix System Administration, Second Edition Learn how to control your home from your PC Expert Shell Scripting ISBN 978-1-4302-2778-6 53499 US $34.99 Goodwin SOURCE CODE ONLINE www.apress.com Automation with Linux Linux See last page for details on $10 eBook version Smart Home with Companion eBook Home Automation Steven Goodwin, Author of 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. You’ll be taught about the devices you can build, adapt, or hack yourself from existing technology to accomplish these goals. In Smart Home Automation with Linux, you’ll discover the scope and possibilities involved in creating a practical digital lifestyle. 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 e-mail, SMS, or a web page. You’ll also learn the 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. Also, Smart Home Automation with Linux describes how you can use speech synthesis and voice recognition systems as a means to converse with your household devices in new, futuristic, ways. Additionally, I’ll also show you how to implement computer-controlled alarm clocks that can speak your daily calendar, news reports, train delays, and local weather forecasts. You can then reuse this same weather data in conjunction with motion sensors to remind you to take an umbrella when you’re about to leave the house on days when the forecast calls for rain! I’ve written this book to document all the processes and lessons I’ve learned when creating my own smart and automated house, and now with the help of this book you can do the same. Smart Smart Home Automation with Linux Steven Goodwin Shelve in: Computer Hardware/ General User level: Beginner to Intermediate 9 781430 227786 this print for content only—size & color not accurate 7.5 x 9.25 spine = x.xxx" xxx page count Smart Home Automation with Linux ■■■ Steven Goodwin Smart Home Automation with Linux Copyright © 2010 by Steven Goodwin All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher. ISBN-13 (pbk): 978-1-4302-2778-6 ISBN-13 (electronic): 978-1-4302-2779-3 Printed and bound in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Trademarked names may appear in this book. 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