Minerva is a complete, easy to use, open source home automation suite. Using Minerva you can make your home easier and cheaper to run and more secure.
With Minerva you can switch on your lights from anywhere, using a mobile phone or PC, email your video, check your security CCTV footage, control your central heating, and much more.
Minerva exists in its own mini eco-system, with its own list of users, set of scripts, and functionality.
Key Features
- Control your whole house from one place.
- Three-phase system separates input, process, and output.
- Multiple controls on one web page.
- Minerva TV server.
- Contacts manager.
- Humanistic time reports.
- Vocal feedback, through Festival.
- SOAP control layer.
- Personalised alarm clock.
- Integration with Google calendar.
- FM radio control.
- SMS Control through Gnokii, IntelliSMS, or TxtLocal.
- Infra-red control, through KIRA or LIRC.
- REST API – a way for any application, capable of making HTTP GET requests, to interface with Minerva.
- Marple stands for Minerva Appliance Routing & ProtocoL Engine. This is a mechanism whereby you can control a TV card, media player, etc on one machine while utilizing an interface on another.
- Cosmic is an RF to PC Gateway that uses Heyu to intercept the X10 signals that have been placed on the powerline, by an X10 RF transmitter, and trigger some piece of code.
- Bearskin is series of command wrappers that creates a common interface for controlling the device types under Minerva’s control.
- ‘minty’, a timeout system where devices will auto-turn off if not used within N seconds.
- ‘routine’, a system for processing N timed events from an intial trigger point. e.g. a ‘wake up’ routine, which turns on lights, starts showers, plays alarm, caches train times.
- ‘yaks’, a control system for processing arbitrary messages (from X10) into Linux-bound commands.
- ‘Cache’ conduit to save processor time when requests (like train times) are called for.
- Many web applets including:
- TV guide, with keyword searches.
- IMDB data retrieval.
- TV guide, with keyword searches.
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- X10 control.
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- Video streaming.
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- MP3 jukebox.
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- Kitchen timer.
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- Recipe tool.
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- Audio mixer.
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- Weather reports.
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- Clock.
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- Calendar.
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- CD Player with CDDB integration.
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- RSS feed reader.
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- Bluetooth scanning.
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- Photo frame.
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- Currency conversion.
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- Twitter friends timeline, and Twitter status updates.
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- Administrative tools (df, top, Samba).
Website: www.minervahome.net
Support:
Developer: Steven Goodwin
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Minerva is written in C++ and Python. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| X10 Home Automation Software | |
|---|---|
| Home Assistant | Home automation platform running on Python 3 |
| openHAB | Award winning solution for smart home and the Internet of Things |
| HomeGenie | Home automation server for smart connected devices and applications |
| HEYU | Highly configurable console based backend |
| Minerva | Complete, easy to use, open source home automation suite |
| MisterHouse | Supports X10, voice recognition and several serial devices |
| BottleRocket | Utility to control X10 Firecracker devices for home automation |
| BlueLava | CGI interface for x10 |
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