Posts with keyword: home+automation

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An API for My Lights

Fri Feb 22 14:36:00 2013

By building an API for my lights, I can hide the implementation details of the various connected lighting systems I own and make the job of controlling them—programming them—easier.
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The CloudOS: Connecting Hue Lights and Insteon Controllers

Mon Jan 21 13:19:00 2013

The Internet of Things will provide connections to most of the things around us in our lifetime. Will those connections allow my things to work together on my behalf? Only if they are connected to general-purpose programming environments under my control. This post demonstrates how the CloudOS supports connectivity between two systems from different manufacturers using different protocols.
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Hacking the Philips Hue with KRL

Mon Dec 3 09:36:00 2012

Philips Hue is a connected lighting system. No sooner did I see it that I wanted to control my lights from my personal cloud. This blog post is about my initial experiments with controlling Hue using KRL.
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