Pluto Home

Posted by stephen on Tuesday, 20th June, 2006 @ 01:52

First off, I wanted to thank Michael who posted a comment a few weeks back in response to my talk of using MythTV and Asterisk. It's nice to know my site gets seen by more than just the people that knew me already!

He pointed out the Pluto Home project, an open source endeavour that integrates lots of functionality into one convenient package, including MythTV based PVR, Asterisk VoIP telephony, network audio streaming, home automation and security. It's combining lots of existing open source projects, making them easily installable and adding lots of it's own glue to make using it an integrated and versatile experience. Imagine managing your whole home from your mobile phone when you're hundreds of miles away! Might give the cat a fright.

At the time of writing I'm happy with my setup of MythTV and Asterisk as it is, but I'm definitely planning on playing with Pluto Home more and maybe even investing in some of the home automation hardware when I have the cash to spare on such unnecessary things.

Though a big part of me likes doing these things myself and learning about them on the way. It's more fun than playing with a finished product!