My first thought was WeMo (link <http://www.belkin.com/us/wemo-switch>). I was impressed by its IFTTT <https://ifttt.com> integration...
I'm sure you're looking to do more complex things though. A quick search found this WeMo API in Python <https://github.com/iancmcc/ouimeaux> on gitHub. There was also a Perl <https://github.com/ericblue/Perl-Belkin-WeMo-API>one if you are interested. Later, Al On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Sean Dague <[email protected]> wrote: > As I've gotten more progress on my restored home sensor network, I > realized I have a least one immediate use case for some active control > of an element based on that data: > > if (outside_temp < (bedroom_temp - 2)) and bedroom_temp > 72: > turn_on_window_fan() > > I could throw another pi directly at this problem, however it seems > like using some home automation fabric is probably a better long term > choice (then I could just switch the outlet directly by remote > control). It seems that Insteon and Z-Wave are the current contenders > out there. From what I can tell both have relatively sane ways of > writing python code to talk to the fabrics (given that you get the > right controller). > > Anyone have opinions on which would be better. My use case is writing > all the home automation myself in python for now, and all running on > Linux. So anything that that I can't use with that is straight out. > > Thoughts appreciated, > > -Sean > > -- > Sean Dague > http://dague.net > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Aug 7 - Scripting Your World with Python > Sep 4 - NoSQL and MongoDB > Oct 2 - OpenFlow: Open Standard for Networking Hardware >
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