Have some time I work with Home Automation, mostly with Crestron for who knows. I am making some plans to start a project to create a Home Automation System based in Arduino, and if it works fine I will start a business with it.
Have somethings that I need to know before start, and besides I'm finding a lot material in internet, principally in here, but I'm still lost.
Firstble, do you think that is marketable this idea?
Because I need a system who works fine with a tablet/smartphone, and besides I'm finding a lot of things about how to control an Arduino with a tablet/smartphone, but the interfaces aren't customizable or have too few resources to customize, and I don't have any idea how I will program the interface to comunicate with the Arduino board. I studied some Apps like iRule, Open Remote, Demo Pad, Freedomotic and others. I need to know how I'll program a button to send a IR comand for example, or a serial comand, etc.
If anyone knows a customizable App to work with Arduino to indicates me, I would be very grateful.
Would be very helpful too if someone could send me a sketch about IR send or any sketch related with home automation.
you can have a look at souliss, it should work for you. Consider that Arduino boards doesn't have the certification to be installed as devices, this doesn't means that you cannot, but that your business should care about.
dynnolucinda:
Firstble, do you think that is marketable this idea?
Depends. There are plenty of smarthome systems out there. Hell, even TV/Phone/Internet companies are getting into it now-a-days. The question you have to ask yourself is what are you going to do to set yourself apart. Being that there are so many options and not that many people buying said options, I would do some research to figure out why.
you can have a look at souliss, it should work for you. Consider that Arduino boards doesn't have the certification to be installed as devices, this doesn't means that you cannot, but that your business should care about.
Regards,
Dario.
Thanks for answer, it looks fine to me, maybe I can use it in my project, I will study it a little more.