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Tablets : http://www.dealextreme.com/c/tablets-1409 http://www.dealextreme.com/c/tablets-1409 Thermostats. Most houses have "3 wire" or "5 wire" layouts with standard colors. http://home.howstuffworks.com/home-thermostat3.htm http://home.howstuffworks.com/home-thermostat3.htm. Its pretty easy to call for heat or cool. Get a temperature sensor for your beaglebone from sparkfun: https://www.sparkfun.com/search/results?term=temperature+sensors&what=products https://www.sparkfun.com/search/results?term=temperature+sen... I replied further down on how the garage door worked out.

pyre 14y ago
Ah. I mis-understood you on the touch screen part. You made a web interface that you access via cheap tablets. I was thinking that you were replacing physical switches with wall-mounted mini touchscreens.
- noonespecial 14y ago
  Yes. That's really where the magic comes from. We've had model controller and view smashed together poorly in single purpose devices for so long, it takes a bit of a mental reorientation to understand that a light switch even has a M, a V, and a C. Once you do though, you get the awesomeness of programming together your lights, security system, and garage door opener into one view with a software "controller" that can open the door, report its state and turn on the lights with a button press. Then you can put that button on any wall, phone or whatever. If you want to create the functionality of merely replacing a switch with a little touch screen, you can, but that's just one instantiation of the many that become possible.
  - gmrple 14y ago
    What do you mean by "...has a M, a V, and a C."?
    - telcodud 14y ago
      Model-view-controller. Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93cont...
sreyaNotfilc 14y ago
This is so sweet! I gotta try this soon! Thanks for the links!

pyre 14y ago

Ah. I mis-understood you on the touch screen part. You made a web interface that you access via cheap tablets. I was thinking that you were replacing physical switches with wall-mounted mini touchscreens.

noonespecial 14y ago
Yes. That's really where the magic comes from. We've had model controller and view smashed together poorly in single purpose devices for so long, it takes a bit of a mental reorientation to understand that a light switch even has a M, a V, and a C. Once you do though, you get the awesomeness of programming together your lights, security system, and garage door opener into one view with a software "controller" that can open the door, report its state and turn on the lights with a button press. Then you can put that button on any wall, phone or whatever. If you want to create the functionality of merely replacing a switch with a little touch screen, you can, but that's just one instantiation of the many that become possible.
- gmrple 14y ago
  What do you mean by "...has a M, a V, and a C."?
  - telcodud 14y ago
    Model-view-controller. Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93cont...

sreyaNotfilc 14y ago

This is so sweet! I gotta try this soon! Thanks for the links!