Home Automation Controller Using A Broadband Router To Control Home Automation Devices

摘要

A wireless router can be used for a variety of unusual purposes, such as controlling home automation devices. This article describes a relatively simple conversion of an Asus router for use as a home automation control unit.As already described in an article in the February 2006 issue on modifying routers, standard broadband routers can be used for many purposes thattheir designers never had in mind. That article described how to add a USB port to an inexpensive Sweex router and convert it into a web server. In thisarticle, we show you how to modify a standard wireless router for use as the central control unit of a home automation system.