New HA software suggestions welcomed

[gazza_d]

I'm on the lookout for a different Ha software application, and casting about for suggestions.

I currently run a few different web apps on a hacked pogoplug:

• Ampache, & mediatomb for serving music and video over upnp and web.
• Mollify as a personal "dropbox like" web based file store.
• emonCMS for energy monitoring
• Home Automation (http://karpero.mine.nu/ha/) nice webbased view and control of RF sockets via a telldus tellstick, and display of 1-wire temps.

As well as the Tellstick, I have a usb-1-wire adaptor and a bunch of 1-wire devices.

As a on/off simple solution, the HomeAutomation is great, however I now want to do some better chaining of actions as a start. An example is to after a pre-set time switch the Washer off and tweet/email that it has finished, which I cannot do at the moment. Ialso would like the ability to add cameras etc in the near future, as well as automated lighting based on time & motion/occupancy. And possibly Asterisk for voicemail and telephony.

Oh, yea and I want to run it on the pogoplug, and hopeully be able to control it from Nokia internet tablets and web browsers.

Front runners for me so far seem to be

• Misterhouse
• Domotiga
• Freedomotic
• Minerva

Misterhouse seems massive and the user interface seems a little bit old fashioned & clunky, as does Minerva.

Does anyone have any experience or other suggestions?

[toscal]

Try these links

http://www.linuxha.com/

http://www.linuxha.com/athome/index.html#Software

http://hometoys.com/software.php

http://home.comcast.net/~ncherry/

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/ and search for Home Automation

Also in about 30 days time you could order a Raspberry PI and the GPIO board.