Free automation software for linux

DRACONi Automation project is a Web-based digital entertainment/automation control package.
DRACONi Automation aims to be a home automation and digital entertainment/automation control package. Its designed to be modular, meaning new kinds of functionality can be added easily.
Currently, the X10 CM11A and Applied Digital Ocelot/Leopard are supported. It can also control XMMS and the Festival Speech Synthesis System.
Enhancements:
- User based system complete with per-user security permissions (you can restrict certain users to only user certain parts of the system)
- Multiple interfaces
- HTML - for most standard web browsers
- mobile HTML - for mobile devices with smaller screens such as PDAs and larger cell-phones that can read HTML, but have
- xHTML Basic/WAP 2.0 - for mobile devices such as cell phones with very small screens and low bandwidth

The Stewie Radio Automation Project is a stand-in replacement for the "XMMS playlist on random" style of independent radio station.
Once properly configured, the user will enjoy the low maintenance of a "random playlist" station while still being able to use legal IDs, liners, multiple playlists, and music logs.
Main features:
- Low maintenance
- Multiple playlists
- Liners
- Legal IDs
- Logs every song and liner played
- Records errors and keeps truckin
Enhancements:
- Fixed a few bugs in install script
- Created error log/warning system
- Main script now updates the settings in stewie.conf in order to continue running. The only thing that *should* kill it, is not having any music available in the "master" playlist.
- Config file can be updated while script is running
- install-stewie gives "not found" audio players another chance
- Rewrote README file

Paus is all about controlling "stuff" with easy scripts. You could for example make the light in your house go on and off in the way you specify.

You also could use paus to create a remote controlled mp3box that also has a web-interface at the same time and shows the current song on an LCD display.

With paus you can send and receive "events" from so called "modules":
* There are IO modules to control hardware, like lights and sensors.
* Theres an UI module to control an universal userinterface.
* Theres an IR module to receive events from remote controllers.
* There are many more to come.

Paus is designed to be as flexible and clean as possible. Its very easy to control the modules by using simple perl-scripting.

Its also very easy to create additional modules in perl or C. Modules even can be controlled accros the internet. (it doesnt make a difference at all).

Nettion provides a network performance testing toolkit.
Nettion (NETwork TestIng and Operational eNvironment) is a framework for developing, deploying, and executing network performance tests, designed particularly for mobile ad-hoc networks.
It is distinguished by not using control "backchannels" to start and stop the test, but rather using either a local setup network, the test network itself, or compact flash memory.
Nettion LogoNettion Nettion (NETwork TestIng and Operational eNvironment) is a suite of software tools for developing and executing network performance tests. Designed with an emphasis on testing mobile ad-hoc networks, Nettion can utilize either a local setup network, the test network, or compact flash memory.
Nettion is GUI based and provides a substantial amount of automation to the tests, allowing the operators to focus on the portion of the network being tested. Nettion support both unicast (UDP) and multicast testing.
Nettion takes network testing from design through execution and on to post test information gathering. By analyzing the resultant data and by putting a collection of measurement tools together into a common system, Nettion allows for simple, efficient, and detailed operation of network testing.
Enhancements:
- Moved to Dazle 0.3.1.
- Moved to Heron 0.1.2.
- Moved to OLSR 7.2. Now able to use HNA configuration (see OLSR)
- Fixed MNE config path bug.
- Displays Heron data in Info field.

cm Compilation Manager is a new tool for build automation and compilation management. cm Compilation Manager addresses a number of shortcomings I see in make.
Main features:
- A clean syntax based on a context-free language description
- Whitespace insensitivity
- Distinct macros and variables
- Separate procedure and production namespaces
- Many native programming constructs such as foreach loops for easy iteration, and more powerful tools such as anonymous functions with static scoping.
- Built-in support for recursive directory handling without additional invocations of cm.
- An intelligent, automatic configuration file generator
- Pre-generated functions for handling common build tasks in a platform-independent manner
- Support for multiple build configurations and multi-pass builds over complicated directory hierarchies
Installation instructions:
Download cm, classib, and gc.
Install the garbage collector per the included instructions. (Basically ./configure; make; sudo make install.) When running configure, you will need to pass it the parameters: --prefix=/usr/lib --with-threads=posix.
Unzip classlib (tar vzxf classlib.tar.gz).
Configure classlibs Makefile with any paths you need to modify.
Build and install classlib with make && sudo make install.
Unzip cm (tar vzxf cm.tar.gz).
Build and install cm with make && sudo make install.
Configure cm by executing: cd /usr/local/etc && sudo cminit
To verify your cm installation, you can rebuild it with the included Cmrules files by typing cm @clean && cm -m opt in the same directory you built cm in with make.
Enhancements:
- The license was changed to the GPL.
- This release includes a dynamic module/plugin system and two initial plugin modules.
- It supports non-root installation, additional command line options, and caches parsed files for quick retrieval during multi-pass builds.
- Several bugfixes are also included.

domus.Link project is a web-based frontend for Heyu. Design focuses on separating configuration from actual controls thus giving the user a simple and user friendly GUI. The primary concern being that anyone with little or no knowledge of home automation systems can easily manage/administer the system.
Main features:
- Web based Heyu configuration
- Add/Remove/Edit Aliases
- Alias modules divided by type (Lights, Appliance, etc)
- ON/OFF Controls for every type
- DIM/BRIGHT Controls for Lights
- Multilingual
- Themeable

Campcaster is a free and open source automation system for radio stations.
Campcaster is the first free and open radio management software that provides live studio broadcast capabilities as well as remote automation in one integrated system.
Radio is still the most powerful method of disseminating news and educational material to disadvantaged groups and in areas with high poverty, scant technological infrastructure, and/or instability. But while radio is extremely effective, the tools available to most community stations are very limited in function. The Campcaster project addresses this by giving stations a free and open source, end-to-end solution for managing a radio station by using standard personal computers.
Campcaster is the first free and open source radio management software to provide both live studio broadcast capabilities as well as remote automation in one integrated system.
Campcaster has been designed to be modular and scalable. It can be used by both large and small stations in a number of scenarios:
- Unmanned broadcast units can be controlled remotely through the Internet
- An unlimited number of Campcaster-powered PCs in a radio station can deliver live broadcasts as well as program automation by accessing a central audio storage system
- A stations library can be digitized and made centrally accessible from both local studios as well as the web
- Reporters and show producers can file their reports and shows directly to the central archive fron the field via any web browser
Campcaster is capable of combining local audio files and remote web streams, supporting the widely used MP3 format and its open equivalent Ogg Vorbis.
As with all Campware products, multilinguality is a central feature in Campcaster: virtually everything in the user interface can be translated into any language using Unicode. Multilinguality is implemented on all levels of the user interface as well as for the metadata for audio files in the storage system. Campcaster is currently available in 9 languages, and it is very easy to localize into additional languages.
Campcaster has been designed for a Linux environment, but it was built it on top of standard, cross-platform classes. Such an architecture allows for easy porting of Campcaster to different operating systems in the future.