Minerva
Linux Home Automation for the Masses
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/9836/
2nd June 2008 Smitten Smitten is a media centre application for playing movies, music, picture slideshows, and reading text on your TV or computer.

Smitten differs from traditional media centres in three major ways:

1. It contains no media playback at all! This makes it very small (and suitable for porting to embedded systems) and quick to initialize.
2. It targets a TV display and interface. This means there's less information on any particular screen, and a much simpler control interface consisting of left, right, up, down, and select. No mouse required!
3. It is also highly skinnable, and cross-platform to most systems.

Essentially, Smitten provides an easy-to-use menu system that allows the user to navigate a hierarchy of files, and view them using an (external) tool.

29th April 2008 Optimus Maximus Keyboard It looks like this keyboard is really going to arrive. Wow! Just thinking about the reports and information that could be present for HA applications is incredible. After all, you'd no longer need a monitor - the expensive bit of kit (in terms of money, and chip space.)
12-14th March 2008 IPTV Forum 2008 We have been prowling around the stands to look for the perfect PVR that'll interface nicely with Minerva. We haven't yet found one, but hopefully someone will step up to the plate and work with us to support Minerva.
4th March 2008 Eleonex One Is this our HA saviour? Possibly!
15th February 2008 Minerva at FOSDEM Minerva's founder and chief architect, Steven Goodwin, is to present a lightning talk at the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting on the 24th February 2008.
13th December 2007 Homebrew: Tea at the touch of a button As part of the ZDNet Homebrew challenge, this video explains some of the features available with the Minerva system.
4th December 2007 Five Subtleties of HA HA is not about brute forcing complexity into your daily lives, it's about technology augmenting your life in a subtle natural way. Here are five examples of things I've implemented in Minerva.
29th November 2007 Build on Free Software As most of you know, I do a lot of work within the Free and Open Source communities; so it's natural that my HA setup makes use of this. This post on my zdnet blog briefly outlines which majors pieces of software are featured.