Feel free to talk about anything and everything in this board.

Tracking energy consumption and trends is the first step in managing costs, making informed decisions and effecting behavioral changes.

Discussion about means and methods of making devices perform programmed tasks without operator intervention.

Ultimately it's all One's and Zeroes, but sometimes those don't always do what you want them to and that's when I come here, to discuss issues around Electronic Circuit Design, Theory of Operation, and Reports from the Field as I muddle my way through learning about electronics, developing circuits and PCB's for Venturii and other projects, and overall - having fun directing the flow of electrons.

There are many kinds of sensing devices for measuring, detecting, and describing space, time and energy. This board is for the general discussion of concepts relating to converting perception into an electrical signal.

Discussions around the web-based user interfaces for Venturii.

All Venturii programs primary interface is a console window using the Venturii Terminal program, allowing access to advanced features, menus and complete configuration of the system.

Besides a Web Interface, Venturii allows control from and provides feedback to users in a variety of ways, including physical control panels, localized indicators and display screens. All non-web-based forms of human interaction may be discussed here.

What do you want it to be able to do?

The heart of Venturii, Decider is where the magic happens.

The Venturii Libraries. Core functionality of all Venturii components is built into this package.

A general purpose module for sending and receiving message from generic devices over a serial connection or IP socket.

A module for interfacing with intrusion detection systems.

Venturii BusCom is a Venturii module aimed at communicating with Serial, TCP/IP Socket and Unix Pipe-based services, devices and processes. It allows commands and data to be exchanged directly with systems offering low level serial interfaces or API's that utilize ASCII, hexadecimal or binary protocols and can be modified easily to suit a specific usage case.

A Venturii module for connecting to Venturii hardware and devices running Venturii-compatible firmware. VDAC - Venturii Data Acquisition & Control.

Ecksten is a legacy module for controlling X10 devices.

A module for interfacing with Smarthome Powerline Modems to talk to an Insteon powerline and/or RF mesh network.

A module for interfacing with Kramer Vertical Interval Matrix Switchers.

Maestro is an interface to Hayes-compatible modems, tasked with listening for Ring events on the phone line and Caller ID data. It allows this data to be brought into Venturii, where it is logged and can trigger other events or actions.

TwoPhase is a legacy module for controlling Philips / Bosch AutoDome series PTZ Cameras by implementing a subset of the G3A protocol. A serial to BiPhase converter is typically required to connect to these cameras.

The XRAD module was one of the original Venturii modules, written to talk to an XR-Series 16-Channel, 12-Bit Analog to Digital converter board made by National Control Devices.

All Arduino and Atmel-based Venturii hardware utilizes some or all of the Venturii Data Acquisition & Control, or VDAC, firmware. Made to be modular, it allows Makers to quickly develop new hardware that is natively compatible with Venturii.

The Venturii (Digital) Sensor Acquisition & Control firmware.

An All-In-One automation interface & controller.

The Venturii Multi-Purpose Interface Device, model 1 or MID-1 is a small, capable interface for connecting sensors, devices, and even a small user interface to your Venturii system.