[...]... Help from Linux 11 1 Chapter 6: Building a Personal Video Recorder with MythTV 11 3 Chapter 7: Streaming Music without the Wires 12 9 Chapter 8: Having Fun with a Webcam 14 1 Chapter 9: Setting Up a Smart Phone System .15 7 Part IV: Keeping a Linux Eye on the Sky 18 5 Chapter 10 : Letting Linux Watch the Weather For You 18 7 Chapter 11 : Getting Online Weather Information... 10 0 Routing About .10 3 Part III: Entertaining Your Brain with a Little Help from Linux .11 1 Chapter 6: Building a Personal Video Recorder with MythTV 11 3 Building Your MythTV PVR .11 4 Selecting the hardware 11 4 Installing MythTV .11 5 Configuring MySQL 11 7 Configuring the MythTV backend server 11 7 Configuring the MythTV frontend server 12 2... 14 2 Viewing your webcam on your computer with CamStream 14 6 xiii xiv Linux Smart Homes For Dummies Having Fun with Videoconferencing 15 1 Installing Ekiga 15 2 Configuring Ekiga 15 2 Making calls .15 3 Looking Around with Pan and Tilt .15 5 Putting Your Webcam to Work 15 6 Chapter 9: Setting Up a Smart Phone System 15 7 Asterisk 10 1... 10 1 15 8 Dial plans .15 9 Context .16 1 Gathering the Ingredients 16 5 Fitting the hardware pieces together .16 6 Configuring the SPA-3000 16 7 How the other half lives: The software 17 6 Making a Smart Call .18 2 Part IV: Keeping a Linux Eye on the Sky .18 5 Chapter 10 : Letting Linux Watch the Weather For You 18 7 Choosing the... .19 9 Chapter 12 : Staying Comfortable with Thermostat Controls 211 Part V: X10-ding Your Environment with Home Automation .225 Chapter 13 : Introducing X10 Home Automation .227 Chapter 14 : Going Wireless with X10 249 Part VI: Controlling and Securing Your Automation Network 259 Chapter 15 : Controlling Your House with MisterHouse 2 61 Chapter 16 : Controlling X10 from... Problems (Of the CD Kind) 350 Index 3 51 xvii xviii Linux Smart Homes For Dummies Introduction W elcome to Linux Smart Homes For Dummies To own and operate a Linux smart home means to control and monitor devices and information around your home by using a standard personal computer, Linux, and its vast array of open source tools Having a Linux smart home is also about doing it yourself and... paragraphs, which parse out über-techie tidbits (which you might or might not be interested in) 3 4 Linux Smart Homes For Dummies How This Book Is Organized Linux Smart Homes For Dummies is split into seven parts You don’t have to read it sequentially, and you don’t even have to read all the sections in any particular chapter You can use the Table of Contents and the index to find the information you need and... discuss Linux smart homes, please visit the Linux HA (that’s HA as in home automation and not ha ha) Web site: www.linuxha.com/FD There, you can find the latest software, links to various software sites, and the support forums for this book and Linux home automation If you need to contact the author, send e-mail to linuxha@linuxha.com Part I Bringing the Future Home M In this part aking your home a smart. .. Software 18 7 Building the Weather Station 18 8 Installing the Weather Station Software 18 9 Configuring the weather station program .19 1 Making the weather station cable 19 3 Configuring additional weather station settings 19 3 Mounting the Weather Station 19 7 Putting Your Weather Data on the Web 19 8 Chapter 11 : Getting Online Weather Information 19 9 Getting... Software 12 9 Configuring Your System 13 2 Installing and configuring the media server 13 2 Connecting and configuring the D-Link media client 13 4 Choosing Your Music Format .13 7 Ripping CDs and Encoding Music Files with Grip 13 7 Streaming Your Audio 13 9 Chapter 8: Having Fun with a Webcam 14 1 Sharing the Fun with a Webcam 14 1 Installing . Congress Control Number: 20069239 51 ISBN -1 3 : 97 8-0 -7 64 5-9 82 3-4 ISBN -1 0 : 0-7 64 5-9 82 3-6 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1O/RZ/QX/QW/IN 01_ 598236 ffirs.qxp 6/27/06 7:46. Webcam 14 1 Chapter 9: Setting Up a Smart Phone System 15 7 Part IV: Keeping a Linux Eye on the Sky 18 5 Chapter 10 : Letting Linux Watch the Weather For You 18 7 Chapter 11 : Getting Online Weather Information. h0" alt="" Linux ® Smart Homes FOR DUMmIES ‰ by Neil Cherry 01_ 598236 ffirs.qxp 6/27/06 7:46 PM Page iii 01_ 598236 ffirs.qxp 6/27/06 7:46 PM Page ii Linux ® Smart Homes FOR DUMmIES ‰ 01_ 598236