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What is Pluto?
Pluto Home is the only solution seamlessly combining:
- media & entertainment with a server for music, movies and tv shows, plus a PVR and DVD Player,
- a home automation system to control everything in the home with touch-screen tablet and Bluetooth mobile phone controllers,
- a phone system with video conferencing,
- a security system that feeds you live video on your mobile phone when something happens, and lets you speak to visitors through your stereos, and
- a home PC solution.
A typical Pluto system consists of a Core: one PC acting as a dedicated server and interface to all the sub-components. The Core includes our own plug-and-play back-end so it listens for and auto configures all sorts of devices like network audio players (such as Squeeze Box), IP phones and cameras. The Core automatically exposes a network boot for any other PC's or thin clients you want to use as Media Directors, which you hook up to your TV/Stereo's to use as set top boxes, complete with a media player, PVR, video conferencing, intercom, and a GUI to control everything in the home. All Media Directors work together seamlessly as a total whole-house solution.
News
August 08, 2006
Version 2.0.0.40 of Pluto Home was released, including a new PnP system, configuration wizard, improved telecom, improved orbiter, and an updated 2.6.16.20 kernel. See the change log for complete details.
Features
Pluto Home is an all-in-one solution for your home that seamlessly combines media & entertainment, home automation, security, telecommunications and computing. Browse the features page, along with What can I do with Pluto? to see the possibilites available from Pluto Home.
Screenshots
Download
The simplest and easiest way to get Pluto Home is from the commercial web site's download page. There you will find a burnable CD image, suitable for quickly installing a new Core system.
Getting Started
Support
User's Manual
Configuring Pluto Home
FAQ
- Development status for all modules
- What does an appliance solution like Pluto cost?
- Why buy a licensed Pluto product? What's the difference?
- Do I need Pluto? Can I use the projects by themselves?
- How do I login to a Linux console?
- How are media files organized?
- I can't access my media files over the network
- Reset the password for the Pluto Admin site
- What if you don't have a driver for my home automation devic
- What scenarios are created automatically?
- I'm a Linux user already. Should I use Pluto's distribution
- Why doesn't Pluto support encrypted DVD's?
Development
Programmer's Guide
There is a great deal of documentation on the Pluto Home platform available in the Programmer's Guide. This guide provides an overview of the Pluto Home architecture,
Software Used by Pluto Home
Pluto Home is often called a platform for developing smart home modules constructed by a variety of open source projects. The integration of these open source projects, such as Xine, Mythtv, and Asterisk, can be found in the Pluto Home Software Documentation.
Documentation by Device Templates
Mailing List
Report Bugs
Suggest Features
Submit Patches
SVN
Versions
The current version of Pluto home is 2.0.0.40. You may find information about this version via the official/commercial change log page, this wiki's version of the change log, further insight into 2.0.0.40, and information regarding Pluto Home's version numbering and several version trees.
Documents
Installation
Installation
Equipment
Sound Cards
Recommended Accessories
Software
Building from source
Kick-Start CD
Installers
Windows
Installing on a new platform
Network Boot for Media Directors
Encrypted DVD's
Wiring Considerations
Choosing Locations
Quick Start Guides
Picking the right components
Installing the software
Installing the hardware
Tell Pluto about your home
Testing and troubleshooting devices
Real world example
Setting up MythTV
Using Pluto
Troubleshooting
PlutoVIP
Short Howto on Wiki
This section has been moved to Short Howto on Wiki.
