[mythtv] Home Automation Module

[Ed Benckert]

Well, I for one would love to see it. I've got an X10 home automation 
system, and I havent set it up yet for use with my remote, but I'd LOVE to 
have a diagram of my basement lighting on screen and navigate it and control 
the lights via the remote. Was gonna try a Myth module myself but I didnt 
find any documentaion, and dont have the time to figure it out by reading 
the code. I was trying to find other menuing applications I could make lirc 
crontrol to do the same thing, to no avail.

Unfortunately I have no useful info for you... but I'm great in the 
encouragement department! ;) (and at least you know SOMEONE else would use it)

Joe Thielen wrote:

> Hello out there in MythTV land!
> 
> I the author of DRACONi Automation, a GPL'd web-based home automation 
> interface to several home automation controllers and media players.
> 
> Someone on our forum mentioned it'd be cool to have this built as a 
> module for MythTV.   After taking a look at the MythTV website and 
> instantly deciding it was worthy :), I now need to investigate how hard 
> is would be to create a MythTV module.  I've looked at the 
> documentation, but can't find any info on creating a module.  I did a 
> quick search on the list, and basically everything says to read the code.
> 
> While I agree that's basically the best bet, I'm wondering if there is a 
> quicker way?  Has anyone created a simple 'template' module that I can 
> look at and build upon?
> 
> Now, I don't have MythTV running, basically right now I'm investigating 
> how hard this is going to be.  I think it'd be AWESOME to have a home 
> automation interface in MythTV.  I've got PHP programming experience as 
> well as some very old limited C++ experience.  What is MythTV written 
> in, and can modules be written in any language, or do they need to be 
> written in the same language?
> 
> Anyway, that's where I'm at.  Any hints to the right direction would be 
> greatly appreciated!
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