LinuxMCE is a whole home automation suite.
It the 'digital glue' between your media and all of your electrical appliances.
It includes full featured solutions for:
Media
- Organize media with special metadata tags
- View/Listen to media in any room
- Media automatically follows you through your home
- New media is automatically detected - even if it's on other devices like another computer on your network or Network Attached Storage (NAS)
- Control all your A/V gear through LinuxMCE
- (using HDMI-CEC, IR, USB, Ethernet, or RS-232) including automatically powering everything on and setting the proper inputs on each device
Security
- Monitor sensors and trigger events
- Monitor security cameras
Telecomunication
- Use VoIP phones anywhere in your home with minimal setup
- Voicemail, call forwarding, advanced caller ID
Network Management
- Take the place of a standard home router
- Advanced firewall
- Advanced Quality of Service (QoS) to make sure your bandwidth is used effectively
- (especially important for VoIP)
- Manage networked storage (such as NAS devices)
Home Control and Automation
- Control climate and lighting throughout your entire home
LinuxMCE provides all this functionality by controlling
all kinds of devices throughout the home including:
- LinuxMCE Core Computer
- LinuxMCE Media Director Computers
- LinuxMCE Orbiters (Fancy remotes)
- Nokia 770/N800/N810
- Various PDAs (such as IPAQ 5550 and IPAQ hx2410)
- Various Bluetooth capable mobile phones
(including Nokia E65, N70, N73, 6620, 7650) - The Web Orbiter
- Various other devices
- Networked storage (including Network Attached Storage (NAS) Devices)
- A/V Equipment (TVs, Receivers, Cable Boxes, etc)
- HDMI-CEC
- Using Infrared (IR)
- Using RS-232 (Serial)
- Using Ethernet (Network)
- Using USB
- TV Capture Devices
- Lighting Automation
- Using X10
- Using Z-Wave
- Using Insteon
- Using various other protocols
- See also: Automation
- HVAC (Climate Control)Automation
- Security Systems or Individual Sensors
- Surveillance Cameras (IP, Firewire, video capture board, etc)
- VoIP Phones and Service Providers