[OpenplacOS] Is Openplacos still alive ?

[Roland Grimont <roland.grimont@xxxxxxx>]

I recently bought a Cubieboard and I would like to use it with Openplacos to manage my home (and also a secondary house in the mountains - I live in Grenoble - France).

Is this project still alive, and is it possible to contact a member of the staff to get some information to get informations to ?

I think that with new low power ARM boards (Rapsbery, Cubie) this project should be REALLY interresting because these cheap boards only require 5 W, so they should be perfect for an autonomous home management (with solar power cells and MSP430 micro-controllers all system should REALLY be "green" with ultra low power and great efficiency.

Is it possible to add modules to manage RFID readers (better than ordinary keys) and an alarm system with GSM board sending SMS ( SMS board can be used as a serial modem with "AT" style commands).
So it should be possible to receive alarm SMS and send remote commands via SMS).

Maybe with these new features the project should be the "phoenix", with Zigbee comm modules and other new features.

MSP430 should also be better than Arduino. These micro-controllers are really cheap (<2€ on eBay) and can be used with internal oscillator, so they just require a small breadboard to work. And MSP430 Lanchpad is also really cheap (1/2 € on eBay if you don't have a TI account), with REAL time debugger (not necessary to test full firmware blindly). And it is possible to use Energia, an Open source Arduino style IDE that is working on Linux and Windows.

As I REALLY like open source I should be really interested by this project.

Can you please reply? Thanks

Sincerely,

Roland Grimont

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Sujet:	Where to get Openplacos for recent Linux distributions ?
Date :	Sun, 02 Jun 2013 00:03:20 +0200
De :	Roland Grimont <roland.grimont@xxxxxxx>
Répondre à :	roland.grimont@xxxxxxx
Pour :	openplacos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi Dream Team,

I should be very interested to test Openplacos but the repository is too 
old for my distribution and I can't install it.

I actually use Linux Mint 13, based on Ubuntu Precise (LTS), and the 
last Ubuntu distribution including Openplacos is Oneiric...

Is it possible (and safe) to install Oneiric version on a Precise 
distribution directly with the .deb file ?

If not, how can I proceed to install Openplacos on my computer ?

Thanks for your reply.

Best regards,

Roland Grimont.