[needs-packaging] Minerva

[Tree MendUs]

URL: http://www.minervahome.net/

Description:
Minerva is a complete, easy to use, 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.

Controlled by command line, X10 RF, web browser and IR remote control (with suitable LIRC bindings.)
Also in existence, but awaiting formal release, is the SMS phone conduit and official LIRC conduit.

Outputs include speech synthesis (through Festival), along with control logging, X10 output, and the ubiqutious web browser.

Features
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The current base installation of Minerva supports all of this "out of the box"!

    * Control your whole house from one place
    * Three-phase system separates input, process, and output
    * Multiple controls on one web page
    * Humanistic time reports
    * Vocal feedback, through Festival
    * SOAP control layer
    * Personalised alarm clock
    * Integration with Google calendar
    * Many web applets including,
          o TV guide, with keyword searches
          o X10 control
          o Video streaming
          o MP3 jukebox
          o Audio mixer
          o Weather reports
          o Clock
          o Calendar
          o CD Player with CDDB integration
          o RSS feed reader
          o Photo frame
          o Twitter friends timeline, and Twitter status updates
          o Administrative tools (df, top, Samba)
    * and automatic "make a cuppa" button!

Coming soon...

    * Home noticeboard
    * Minerva TV server
    * Bluetooth remote control (J2ME mobile phone application)
    * FM radio control
    * Jabber (input/output conduit)
    * The XML configuration specifications
    * LIRC (input conduit)
    * Gnokii (input/output conduit)
    * IRC (input/output conduit)
    * Contacts manager
    * Embedded web pages
    * YouTube collator
    * A number of as yet unannounced features...

License: Sounds like the author's code is some sort of open source.
Minerva can also use HeyU, which has it's own a sort of open source license.
http://www.heyu.org/heyu_license.html
an extract of HeyU's lkicense;
"This software is licensed free of charge for non-commercial distribution |
 | and for personal and internal business use only. Inclusion of this |
 | software or any part thereof in a commercial product is prohibited |
 | without the prior written permission of the author. You may copy, use, |
 | and distribute this software subject to the following restrictions: |
 | |
 | 1) You may not charge money for it. |
 | 2) You may not remove or alter this license, copyright notice, or the |
 | included disclaimers. |
 | 3) You may not claim you wrote it. |
 | 4) If you make improvements (or other changes), you are requested |
 | to send them to the Heyu maintainer so there's a focal point for |
 | distributing improved versions.
"
contact: minervahome@gmail

Downloads:
http://www.minervahome.net/downloads.htm

Notes:
1) The license for HeyU may not be suitable for Ubuntu.
But this project is in a field of use for which there does not seem to be much software.
It might be possible for Ubuntu to negotiate a change of mind by HeyU so that it will adopt a FOSS approach - especially given the large potential audience that Ubuntu has to offer.

2) The license for Minerva sounds like it will be some form of Open source , because the website says that the author is actively involved in the open source community. He can be contacted at - minervahome@gmail

3) This project may be worth keeping an eye on, even if it gets rejected.
The HeyU portions with license issues could possibly be a project for others to develop a FOSS replacement.

[Tree MendUs (tree-mendus-deactivatedaccount)]

Not packaged, so too early to request a backport.

[Mark Beukers (mark-shard)]

After downloading Minerva and reading through some of the files it looks like the whole package is licensed under the GPL and i don't seem to see a reference to the HeyU in the latest version at least.

[pinzia (pinzia)]

any news?

[pinzia (pinzia)]

gutsy and feisty are in EOF: bug invalid