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OpenHAB and Mycroft

The open Home Automation Bus (openHAB) can connect all the diverse IoT appliances that may or may not be beginning to proliferate around your home. Typically these devices all have their own, often proprietary applications, but often under the bonnet they use open source protocols – and when they don’t, people have figured them out enough to plug them into openHAB. We’ve covered installing it (and indeed Mycroft over the page) back in , but this time around we’re going to do it a little differently, because Canonical recently released the openHAB Ubuntu Appliance for the Raspberry Pi. This means we can write their SD card image, boot it and have

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