This will eventually be the home of my journey through building a home automation system, from scratch.  I am DIY'ing everything, from the installation of all the hardware, right down to writing the software for it from scratch.

This week I've released the initial beta version of gnhast - Garbled's NetBSD Home Automation Scripting Tools.  Download it here.

About gnhast:

A collection of daemons that work together to build an event-based home automation system. The core set of daemons is written in C, however, any event (such as a light being turned on) can be handled by an external script or program. These programs can be written in any language, and the central daemon handles all the intercommunication. It is designed to be easily extensible for new device types and protocols.

The core system is BSD Licensed (3-clause), however scripts or additional data collectors may be written under any acceptable lic.

While the primary development environment for this is NetBSD, it can be used on other UNIX variants, such as Linux, or other BSD's.

gnhast wiki (in progress)

The initial version has support for one-wire sensors (temp, humidity, lux, lightning strike, general counters), Brultech GEM's, and Insteon v2 switches and dimmers.  Support is planned for NuTech AD2USB devices, and a few other things, as I buy and install them in my house. The general plan is to co-develop the system as I physically install devices, so more support will be added as my wallet allows.

Tim