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From: ariel72

2008-10-20 05:53 pm (UTC)

That's so... Lenny von Dohlen in Electric Dreams..

From: ydna

2008-10-20 06:38 pm (UTC)

My car sorta does that. It slowly turns on the cabin lights when I approach and lets me open the door. It knows if I'm standing by the trunk and lets me open it. Now I insanely want everything to work that way.



From: brad

2008-10-20 06:55 pm (UTC)

Likewise with my Audi. Just wish I didn't have to carry multiple fobs/keys/devices around. Why can't my Android be my car key?





From: mjg59

2008-10-20 07:01 pm (UTC)

Mm. What's the battery life hit for doing wifi scanning frequently enough that you don't end up sitting outside (or in the dark) for ages?

From: brad

2008-10-20 07:27 pm (UTC)

For now I manually activate the scanning service when I'm on my way home. Right before I get on my motorcycle I turn it on. Then in ~3-5 minutes I'm home and it opens.



In the future I'll make it automatically adapt its scanning rate based on circumstances. (e.g. if it's 4-7pm and it previously saw the google shuttle's wifi, then it lost it, it can assume I just got off the shuttle and am on my way home and start garage door scanning at a much faster rate.....)





From: interimlover

2008-10-20 07:24 pm (UTC)

what do you use to actually activate the switch that opens the garage?

From: webmaven

2008-10-20 07:34 pm (UTC)

I think you should call it 'Magic Missile' and use it to attack the darkness.

From: notlosers

2008-10-20 09:47 pm (UTC)

Hmm. I've got a house to myself, with no-one to chastise me for messing with the wiring; this sounds like the kind of stupid trick I want to try. Any ideas what to use to control the lights?

From: hughe

2008-10-21 07:04 am (UTC)

At the catflat I stuck all the sensor wires from an old alarm system into the parallel port pin holes on the fileserver. Never underestimate the power of the parallel port. Great for catching rouge lanlords.

From: dossy

2008-10-20 10:15 pm (UTC)

Now, if you can X10 control each individual light fixture and use dimmer switches ... you could have lights brighten and dim as you get closer or further away from them ... all as you travel throughout the house.



It'd be creepy to watch from the curbside, of course.

From: dan_lane

2008-10-20 11:38 pm (UTC)

It's the ability to hack together things like this that make me really excited to ditch my iPhone and get an Android device!

From: brad

2008-10-21 06:38 am (UTC)

Yeah, it's wonderful not needing anybody's permission.



I can just put apps online and set my webserver's mimetype mappings appropriately and install applications directly from the phone's browser. No certifications or applications required.



From: kfk2

2008-10-21 02:34 am (UTC)

Are you using T-Mobile's phone for Android or are there other phones out there?

From: brad

2008-10-21 06:36 am (UTC)

Yeah, using a production T-Mobile G1.

From: nyssabee

2008-10-21 02:52 am (UTC)

That's one of the most awesome things I've ever heard of.

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From: robflynn

2008-10-21 05:20 pm (UTC)

That sounds really fun :)



From: thefowle

2008-10-21 05:40 pm (UTC)

are all your AP's on the same frequency?

From: lisa

2008-10-21 05:53 pm (UTC)

1) Your garage door on the internet is pretty much the coolest thing about your house (until you manage to pull off the helicopter + hot tub thing)



2) I'm voting for more development of the sad trombone app, with the internal gyro mod for full hand motion effect

From: (Anonymous)

2008-10-31 04:10 am (UTC)

Idea This is very awesome, what you have done here. My idea would be to have speakers running through out my entire house and depending what rooms I am moving between the music/audio playing over the speakers follows me. It never plays in a room I am not and even fades from room to room so that I never hear any strange disturbances with speakers going on and off. Possibly than the phone can also be the volume control, or mute(fade to low lvl) the speakers when I receive a call or am in a specific room. That would be sweet!



-digitalmlewis