As someone who has dabbled with (and daydreamed quite alot about) home automation I must say, this is pretty cool! I have never had access to proper bluetooth equipment (don't have Arduino BT, haven't bothered learning using BT on computer) but I have used php+Visual Basic to make christmas lights and the like that can be controlled online. This allowed me to have a proper, graphical website as well as a very small text-only site for cellphone control pr GRPS. I also had homemade "aluminum foil and duct-tape" switches in some doors, which the host computer kept a log of. The log was of course viewable online, and came in very handy for prooving that my nosy little sister snuk into my old room while I was at work. ![]()
My neighbour was pretty impressed when I told her to look at my old bedroom window, then pulled out my cellphone and started remoting the christsmas lights in the window. ![]()
However, there is one serious problem standing in the way of me automating my apartment. Wireing! While hooking a computer controlled relay up to 12V christmas lights is piece of cake, and adding proper relays to an outlet-splitter is very much a possiblility, how do I control the hard-wired stuff? I don't own the apartment I live in, and even if I did, pulling down walls to install wireing and electronics is at best impractical. Besides, one needs to be a certified electrician working for a certified company to do legal installations/modifications on a mains wireing system. =/
Anyways, very cool stuff! If you have any thought on how to get this into "real world", please share!