Ben instead of using a motor etc to control the temp. Try using a temp sensor and have the relay close the connection making the furnace or AC come on. Since the thermostat uses a coil with mercury to close the connection. You could have it done electrically. So it might take 2 relays since there are two connections that need to be closed. Fan and Cooling System. Here is a wire diagram: http://www.electrical-online.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Thermostat-heat-cool-fan-on.jpg
Hello everyone,
I am Thom Cherryhomes, one of the core developers of the LinuxMCE project.
LinuxMCE is a long term project (we are almost 10 years in, and I've budgeted at least another 20 years of development time), which the goal is to unify virtually every single piece of technology within the home, all under a single messaging system and a distributed and synchronized display/control system. Quite frankly, nothing else like it exists on this planet. 
(some people come varying degrees of close...but I don't live for just good enough.)
You can see a demo of it here in one of our demo houses:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2176025602905109829
and my Youtube channel has plenty of LinuxMCE related videos as well:
http://www.youtube.com/tschak909
You can download snapshot DVDs of our current release, as well as an installer for our upcoming release, from the website and the IRC channels respectively.
We have a channel on IRC on FreeNode, irc://irc.freenode.net/#linuxmce and its companion -devel channel, for those who would be interested.
-Thom
Hello everyone,
I am Thom Cherryhomes, one of the core developers of the LinuxMCE project.
LinuxMCE is a long term project (we are almost 10 years in, and I've budgeted at least another 20 years of development time), which the goal is to unify virtually every single piece of technology within the home, all under a single messaging system and a distributed and synchronized display/control system. Quite frankly, nothing else like it exists on this planet. (some people come varying degrees of close...but I don't live for just good enough.)
You can see a demo of it here in one of our demo houses:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2176025602905109829
and my Youtube channel has plenty of LinuxMCE related videos as well:
http://www.youtube.com/tschak909
You can download snapshot DVDs of our current release, as well as an installer for our upcoming release, from the website and the IRC channels respectively.
We have a channel on IRC on FreeNode, irc://irc.freenode.net/#linuxmce and its companion -devel channel, for those who would be interested.
-Thom
