Yeah, I have the alarm clock sorted. A diskless Myth frontend connected to a cron job that does wakeonlan, starts playing music and then ramps the volume up gently....
How easy is it to change the time tho?
I was looking at these as 'ancilliary' controllers - maybe showing snapshots from webcams; email notification for 'important' emails; recipes in the kitchen sounds do-able on one of these; just having one to use as a tiny intelligent device would allow home automation to be do-able away from the home PC.
Asterisk client? velcro on a tiny usb webcam and you may have a video phone...
The thing is... the
Nokia N800/
Nokia N810 would be better suited for all of those tasks than the
Chumby. The N800 has a bigger/higher res screen, faster CPU, more RAM, more Flash, built in web cam, battery, SD slots and a FM tuner. It doesn't have the sensors though and is a bit more expensive.
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