R-House
summary
R‑House wires LinuxMCE to Ruby (Sinatra/Rails), exposing devices via a web/iPhone UI and a rules engine so lights, camera, thermostat and music are commandable and logged; integration uses an R-House gem, a Z-Wave dongle (~$70) plus Z‑Wave devices (200+ vendors, ~100 ft mesh range, dimmers ~$50), an Asus eeebox 20W Atom for low‑power hosting, an Arduino for visual feedback and a RabbitMQ queue for events. Demos show real control and event logging for rough power‑usage attribution.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 8:23protocols
- 14:40architecture
- 28:54rh-intercept
- 30:51house-rule
- 43:12references
- 45:57questions








