Linked by David Adams on Mon 7th Jul 2008 16:49 UTC, submitted by pas de calais
"Home Automation ... covers many areas, including remote and timed control of lights and electrical home appliances, distributed media services, and communication. Over the last 10 years, many hardware manufacturers have presented their own proprietary solutions to these problems. Unbeknownst to them, a groundswell of developers from around the world has been providing similar solutions to the free and open source community." If you want to know how to remotely tell your computer to switch on the kettle and boil a cup of tea, switch on the lights, or just draw the curtains the read the full story at Freesoftware Magazine
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2006-01-06
There are tons of places to get these devices. Here's a place that I've used in the past: http://www.smarthome.com. But look around a bit. X10 is a widely available system.