I love home automation (HA). Ask me a question about it and you will be lucky to leave without hearing one of my lectures on the subject. So when Phil Hughes asked me to write an article on embedded ...

It’s one of the great tragedies of our technological era. Smartphones that feature an incredible amount of computational power compared to computers the past, are largely locked down by carriers or ...

RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5, the latest version of ...

In today's open source roundup: Is it time to automate your home with Linux? Plus: What do Linux users love about systemd? And LinuxCon and CloudOpen start tomorrow Home automation is a hot market ...

In this article, I describe the process I used to create a home automation system using off-the-shelf products, Python and Linux. I start by describing the Serial I/O Kit, drive alert, water alarm, ...