Creative ingenuity and the ability to cram a network stack into the smallest of things have gifted us, over the past few years, some pretty funky home innovations. Legacy (classical?) home dwellers may see little merit in upgrading to a Smart Home, but we have some uniquely Linux ideas that may persuade them.
Having a smart home needn’t mean having Alexa (the voice of Amazon’s Echo) eavesdropping on your every word. Nor does it mean the nameless entity within a Google Assistant reporting back to the mothership whenever you leave the bathroom light on. The Mycroft home assistant can do all the good bits of these voice devices but without the more chilling data-collection aspects. Best of all you can run Mycroft on a Raspberry Pi.
But there’s more to smart homes than shouting at small robots. As autumn makes its way to the UK (and other Northern hemisphere places), good citizens will be collectively donning long johns and firing up their boilers, heat pumps and sacrificial pyres. Some may find themselves having to shoulder the expense of a new boiler, others will want to see if their current one can be hacked and tweaked to make for a more economical winter. Through the magic of OpenHAB, we’ll show you how.
この記事は Linux Format の October 2020 版に掲載されています。
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