Which HomeSeer HomeTroller controller and software

[pete_c]

Could you route announcements from HS3, back to the U3, out the phone jack and into the HI-FI line input?

 
Yup; if the HST folks write a linux speaker dot exe.
 
I have tested the TTS in HS3 for Linux.  Works but I do not have any TTS fonts.
 
Not really playing with HS3 TTS though right now. 

 

[linuxha]

pete_c, on 11 Feb 2014 - 15:33, said:
Here is another board that has been mentioned a couple of times.

http://hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php

The Odroid, I have the board. Freaked me out as it would appear to 'die' every 86400 seconds (hehe). A quick reset and it was working again. So I looked up loosing it's MAC (logs showed a new MAC each time, hmmm). Seems it was designed that way and adding it's actual MAC (ifconfig -a) to the file /etc/smsc95xx_mac_addr, reboot and it would stick. So far it's been running well but I haven't put it through it's paces yet. There are fewer direct pins to control but there is a serial bus which you can use to expand with.

Just found out the file doesn't last through power down, not sure why that is at this point. Very annoying

 

[linuxha]

pete_c, on 11 Feb 2014 - 15:33, said:
Here is another board that has been mentioned a couple of times.

http://hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php

The Odroid, I have the board. Freaked me out as it would appear to 'die' every 86400 seconds (hehe). A quick reset and it was working again. So I looked up loosing it's MAC (logs showed a new MAC each time, hmmm). Seems it was designed that way and adding it's actual MAC (ifconfig -a) to the file /etc/smsc95xx_mac_addr, reboot and it would stick. So far it's been running well but I haven't put it through it's paces yet. There are fewer direct pins to control but there is a serial bus which you can use to expand with.

 

[pete_c]

Thank you Neil.
 
Would you say that the Odroid is a good candidate to test with?
 
Here is what I am currently seeing running just a few things with the Homeseer Zee.

 

Linux ICS-HS3-Zee 3.10.25+ #622 PREEMPT Fri Jan 3 18:41:00 GMT 2014 armv6l

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
root@ICS-HS3-Zee:~# top
top - 21:29:11 up 1 day,  4:35,  1 user,  load average: 0.19, 0.18, 0.21
Tasks:  71 total,   1 running,  70 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  4.4 us,  1.1 sy,  0.0 ni, 92.3 id,  0.0 wa,  0.7 hi,  1.5 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem:    448180 total,   332880 used,   115300 free,    54312 buffers
KiB Swap:   102396 total,        0 used,   102396 free,   211748 cached

 
Application is connected to HAI OPII panel via IP and is recording logs and mysql DB.
 
Not working really that hard now.
 
Concurrently playing with this device which was way ahead of its time.  I am currently utilizing it with HSTouch and have some 15 of them configured and have been running fine.  That said though playing mostly with Linux lately on it.  I can get the DECT phone stuff to work if I am in the Avaya OS but not in Ubuntu at this time.  A softphone works fine with asterisk but still not DECT stuff yet.  I can though talk to the Zigbee chip in it with Linux.  Current "production" phones are two systems; Panansonic and Siemens autonomous multiline configurations.
 
This Atom based tablet touchscreen also includes a DECT chip, phones, Zigbee, GSM, Gb, Wireless and Bluetooth connectivity.  The Linux OS with flash widgets was connected to a whatever in the cloud (Cisco, Ayava, AT&T, Verizon, Telio, et al).  Avaya was putting these in hotels for little call centers.  Utility companies were using these with thermostats and connectivity to the electric meter.