Home automation with Open moko

[sriranjan]

Al Johnson wrote:
> On Friday 31 July 2009, sriranjan wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Will a dongle that attaches to FR and an embedded system that connects
>> to home grid and then be able to control your home appliance from FR be
>> a product worth a consumer market?
>>     
>
> I'm not sure I understand exactly what you are proposing. Most (possibly all) 
> the home automation systems I'm aware of have IP control interfaces either by 
> default or as an option, usually through a browser. The FR should be able to 
> control those already via WiFi, and would probably be very good at it.
>
> Or are you proposing adding a dongle to connect directly to one of the 
> wireless home automation protocols like ZigBee or LonWorks?
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Yep I and my team made on such prototype (software + hardware) with a 
Zigbee.