Androidal Home Automation

Android being the Open-Source iPhone alternative. You don’t have the App(le)-Police telling you what you can’t do.

So here it is. Switching a light on an off. Hello World.


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So amazingly advanced and dismayingly primitive at the same time.

There’s an overview/article of the various protocols here – which is worth a look. Seriously – it may look a bit clunky at the mo, but a combination of this and smart-power monitoring is going to be massive. There’s gold in them that hills, I tell ee.


1 Comment » for Androidal Home Automation
  1. Thankx for your comment! Yes, it is a rough hack. It’s mainly aimed to be a proof of concept of the real time conversation capabilities of XMPP. Hope to see some evolution soon… :-)
    Great blog by the way! :-)