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    Stock ticker Info

    Anyone know anything about the financial markets and if there is an API to get stock prices like automation systems get the weather?   Maybe there is some RSS subscription methods for it.   Just wondering if anyone does something like this in the home automation spaces.     My dad watches the...
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    Presence or Occupancy Detection

    Well, even if you use one of these hacks, let me tell you what can happen:   You spend a year tweaking everything then your girlfriend gets a cat or dog, and your whole system is shot.    Yes, they have some pet immune IR, but then that conflicts with the concept of being extra sensitive for...
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    Remote Controlled RC Camera

    Or go home made like mine. Night-Vision with a BB Gun on it, 200mw transmitter! Not only can you drive around you can shoot things! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPOmVMjX00A&list=UUBFBhqjMEaDFfw4JxDFJ9yg&feature=plcp It is using a remote control for an Airplane, so it has a trainer port...
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    Car automation systems

    I think the core would be an OBDII interface. Unfortunately, the van I just bought is a 1993, which is a few years to old. Despite that, I am attempting to make a smart van using OSA for the automation. I am starting with Phidgets for Analog, Digital Input and Relay control. Some X10...
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    Any open-source projects that use Insteon?

    Yeah, there were some security/permission issues with the first installers, I think Brian has all that worked out, but we have been too backlogged to get the new release out. You might wait a couple weeks for our 0.3.0 build, a lot of import stuff has been reworked in it, the entire plugin...
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    Any open-source projects that use Insteon?

    OpenSourceAutomation.com has Insteon PLM source in VB.NET and ZWave scource in C#.NET. I have been working overtime at the day job for like 2 months solid, and my partner is moving, so we are behind on our release schedule. But take a look and mabye it is something you can work with. Vaughn
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    Some questions from a new HA fanatic

    You check out Mr. House? It is written in Perl and is all open source. So not only is it free, you should find it extensible within your programming preferrences. Vaughn OpenSourceAutomation.com
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    Pet Peeve as a pro

    I think a Pro should also just be judged by work they charged for. I know Pro painters with paint falling off their houses, and Pro plumbers with crappy patches on their own pipes. I would never do the things I have done in my own house to another's house... When it is my house I am working...
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    Room Occupancy Counters -- Need Help!

    I like it and want to support it in my software and house. Maybe you can make a project guide out of it listing required hardware, and any source required to interface to the board. I like it because my dogs will not set it off like my hard to place motions... Vaughn OpenSourceAutomation
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    Video Analytics, what is available to us regular consumers?

    So I am using a Kodicomm DVR with 8 analog cameras. It outputs VGA, and I have a 4-way VGA splitter. Is there something I can route the VGA signal to for processing (so 1 VGA feed has a 6-camera view up on it.) So is there a capture box/server I can use to have analytics ran on all 6 cameras...
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    Video Analytics, what is available to us regular consumers?

    I kinda like for my DVR to record light changes and stuff, only major ones, I watch in fast forward and see the day pass, the shadows crawl across the yard... It is pretty good, good enough not to eat up the HD in the DVR. BUT I agree it is worthless to use the Digital Outputs for alarming or...
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    Created a Voice Recognition app, anyone want to help?

    OpenSourceAutomation.com was started to open the Windows .NET HA options up. We do many of the same things and would like some of the features we do not have yet. I have not gotten to my iSY99 yet, for example. We have a full API making it easy to code against. We are only 2 programmers now...
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    What would you pay for flawless occupancy detection?

    Dude, you are so spot on. Kinects and stuff are all going to be fun and loved until people hear there is Nanny Cam software for them... I will never shoot up in a house that has an XBox or PS3 again! Wait, did I just say that? But even worse is the blindness people have to Phones and...
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    What would you pay for flawless occupancy detection?

    Yeah, just depends on what you send. The W800RF for example has a fairly complex rs232 protocol (for me =)... Tons of Bit flipping, hex manipulation, etc. If you have a complex protocol like that, source for the client that interprets the bit streams is really really helpful, API or not. (A...
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    What would you pay for flawless occupancy detection?

    I thought the bottom part was a little off topic. I ramble on sometimes. I also have a habit of using Submit/Edit instead of Preview hehe. Didn't think you read it yet =) Last tip on the product (any product), publish an API or some sample code so systems like mine can support it without...
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