(OT) Canadian FLOSS projects?

[Colin McGregor]

--- David J Patrick <davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On 03/01/07, bob <ican-rZHaEmXdJNJWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > The IO Anywhere project has a Canadian hardware
> dimension as well,
> > headquartered in Kitchener.
> 
> 
> what is IOanywhere ? (couldn't quite determine from
> lazy look at sites)
> 
> I need to set up an array (30x) of 0-19VDC sources,
> to drive lighting
> controllers.
> is there an appliance, or components to do that sort
> of thing ?

Have a look at MisterHouse:

   misterhouse.net

Which is an open source home automation project
available for Linux and other OSs. Out of the box the
program is cute/useful, with a bit of tweaking (and
external hardware) it could easily do what you note
above.

Do be somewhat wary of the X-10 standard hardware for
home automation (some of which does work with the
MisterHouse software). It is inexpensive, readily
available, but only sort of works, namely it tends to
get false positives/negatives in the real world (i.e.:
I have one X-10 lamp that tends to turn itself on for
no visible reason...).

Colin.
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