December 29, 2010
Haven’t posted in awhile, but I’ve been really busy as usual. I’ve been living and working out of Buffao, New York since August and as always I’m working on a few projects, Tempus (can’t talk about that one yet), Black Box (my home automation platform) and back in November I started working for Gap Technologies, a Buffalo based online college course evaluating company.
Next week my roomates and myself are moving into a new full house near University of Buffalo’s south campus, so after I get all settled in there I’ll post more about my recent projects and post some more for people interested in the Black Box home server platform.
August 20, 2010
I recently started building my first at-home server from scratch running CentOS, a branch off of Fedora. So far everything’s been running exceptionally well. The server’s purpose, rather than just serving web pages is to give control of my house and computers both inside and outside of the house all through a browser, with a mobile friendly layout. I’ve decided to call the project “Black Box”, hopefully I’m not infringing on anyone’s rights..
At this point in the project I have the servers up time, available disk space, running applications, access to media and a user log. Next to be added is support for the Arduino micro controller reading of the servers temperature, ambient temperature and humidity, as well as control of house lighting, and dehumidifier (the server’s running in a fairly moist basement currently).
I’ll be posting all my Black Box scripts up here for anyone interested in implementing something similar for their own house. I’ll be publishing the Server Up Time script (pictured below) later this week.
