I bought an Orange_Livebox off of eBay for the purpose of learning how to put together an embedded operating system.

For the money that I paid I've had countless hours of enjoyable Livebox hacking.

In the spiriting of giving, I've compiled my notes. Some work is original; some is derived from other resources on the internet.

Along the way, this work has resulted in a flexible, open sourced, Home Automation controller. We've named this the Home Automation Hub (HAH). Turning a cheap router into a home automation server.

HAH components can be bought from the shop or drop by the forums if you have any questions about the HAH project and we'll do our best to help you out.

1. Factory shipped firmware images
2. Flashing new firmware aka Livebox Recovery
   1. Using the Windows utility
   2. With a TFTP server
3. Command line access (Breaking into the Livebox)
   1. Console access hardware
   2. With telnet
   3. Via the serial port
4. Building/Modifying firmware
   1. Breaking open existing firmware aka DWB extraction
   2. Assembling new firmware aka DWB creation with dwbtool
   3. Replacing the redboot loader
5. Building a development environment
   1. Linux cross compiler for MIPS toolchain: Livebox development
   2. Native MIPS development: Compiling on the livebox
   3. Inventel source and toolchain
   4. Building new kernel modules

Interesting things you can do with your Livebox once you've decided ADSL routing is boring!

1. Home Automation Hub overview
2. Installing the HAH firmware
3. Publicity - Sites which mention the HAH

1. Add on Hardware
   1. assembly - Putting together your external board
   2. About the hah_microcontroller firmware
   3. The xAP adapter program interfaces to the external hardware (relays,1wire,i2c,rf,inputs)
   4. i2c - expandable I/O control endpoints
   5. Universal RF - A programmable 443Mhz RF sub-system to control many different devices
2. About the webserver
3. Upgrading Firmware and Backing up your settings
4. External GUI interface
   1. iServer - TCP/xAP gateway used for xAPFlash integration
   2. xAPFlash - Flash based GUI interface for xAP
5. Currentcost - Classic 1, Classic 2, ENVI or later.
6. Using the local CRON daemon for scheduling events
7. Data feeding Pachube - Internet of Things integration
8. Google Calendar integration
9. Sending tweets and remote control via Twitter
10. Mobile phone integration for sending/receiving SMS
11. Plugboard a rule and action engine built with Lua
12. Interfacing simple serial devices - Also used for implementing JeeNode integration
13. JeeNode Integration - bidirectional RF enabled Microcontrollers

1. Getting Started with xAP and the HAH
2. Build the HAH firmware from source code
3. xap_cacti - Monitoring xAP with CACTI
4. Getting programmatic control with Python
5. HAH and the Arduino - integrating microcontrollers

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