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Ubuntu Home Hacks Allison Randal Shiftboard, Inc.

Rules ● Open Source ● Open Hardware ● Cheap ● Real ↔ Virtual ● Explore tech ● Fun

v1.0

Sarah ● Eureka's “Self Actuated Residential Automated Habitat” ● Home Automation ● Hardware focus

controller node client node node node node node node node node node node node node node node node node node node node

JeeNode (v6) ● Arduino (ATmega328p) ● HopeRF (RFM12B, 433MHz) ● Tiny ● ~$20 ● 66 byte packets ● Low-level ● CC-BY http://jeelabs.net

PandaBoard ● Dual-core ARM ● Ubuntu 11.10 ● Polling model ● Aggregate ● Command ● CC-BY-SA http://pandaboard.org

jQuery Mobile ● Small form factor ● Javascript + CSS ● Dual MIT/GPLv2 http://jquerymobile.com

Hiding in Plain Sight

v2.0

New Rules ● Mostly the same, but... ● Less space ● Less time ● Increase budget, more options ● New open hardware ● Software focus ● Ubuntu packages

Sam ● “Smart Apartment Monitor” ● Smart Home ● Extensive refactor (rewrite) ● Pub-sub model ● Neural/cloud

PUB SUB client braind aggregator heard speakd tempd tempd fand lightd weatherd logd

demo

PUB SUB client braind aggregator heard speakd tempd tempd fand lightd weatherd logd

TinkerForge ● Bricks ● Bricklets ● brickd ● Language bindings ● temperature = brick_temp.get_temperature() ● 7 languages ● CERN OHL ● GPL, LGPL, Public Domain http://tinkerforge.com

ØMQ ● “zero” message queue ● Lightweight interface ● publisher.bind("tcp://10.0.3.36:5551") ● subscriber.connect("tcp://10.0.3.36:5551") ● 23 languages ● LGPLv3+ http://zeromq.org

PocketSphinx ● Voice recognition ● Accuracy improved by – Custom grammar ● <command> = sam ( <coat> | <greet> | <fan> ); – Custom lexicon ● THANKS TH AE NG K S ● 5 languages ● BSD

Open Mary TTS ● Speech synthesis ● HTTP interface ● http://10.0.3.1:59125/process? INPUT_TEXT=hello&INPUT_TYPE=TEXT&OUTPUT_TYPE=AUDI O&AUDIO=WAVE_FILE&LOCALE=en_US ● GPLv3/LGPLv3 http://mary.opendfki.de

Node.js ● Lightweight HTTP server ● 42 lines ● HTML/JSON ● ØMQ bindings ● MIT http://nodejs.org

Beautiful Soup ● Web scraping ● weather.gov ● Siri? ● BSD http://crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

sam-next

Ninja Blocks ● March Kickstarter ● 587 people, $102k ● Beaglebone ● Ubuntu 12.04 ● Ninja Cape ● Sensor boards ● OSHW, CC-BY-SA http://ninjablocks.com/

Future Features ● Ubuntu menu/launcher ● More commands ● Office node ● Juju charms ● Reward

Thanks ● Andy Gelme (message-based architecture) ● Pete Moore, Ninja Blocks (Ninja Cape, sensor boards, pre-release docs) ● Olaf Lüke, TinkerForge (licensing)

Get the Source ● http://lohutok.net/talks/homehacks ● https://github.com/allisonrandal/sam-server ● MIT (or any OSI license)

Questions?