tlug: Programming Household Hardware

["Atlas21 Shawn" <gray_s@example.com>]

Greets,

I have been thinking of doing this for quite some time, and was wondering if
anyone has had any experience with, or thoughts and opinions on this. I'd like
to control power to household items such as lights, TV, VCR, from my console (or
even a browser html form interface). I'm running RH 5.2 and have some
programming experience in Perl and C. I'd be interested to know if there are any
SDK's out there for this sort of thing, what programming modules/libraries I
might think of using, what kinds of hardware (connectors, etc.) I might need,
etc.

Its kind of a general question, but if anyone has any ideas, I'd like to hear
them.

Thanks,

Shawn
gray_s@example.com


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