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- | = Overview = | + | = OPENHOME = |
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- | The adoption of broadband internet and the proliferation of wifi-connected devices such as smartphones, web tablets, and netbooks has resulted in the computer network becoming a standard feature of the modern home. However, there are a number of ways in which the modern householder is yet to receive the benefits of this home networking revolution.
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- | OpenHome is an independent body committed to resolving this through the design, implementation, and promotion of open standards. It stimulates innovation by transforming the home network into a rich environment for applications that fit into the way people live.
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- | The modern user of a personal computer or portable computing device is familiar with the process of installing applications according to their own personal taste or need. But there are a number of types of application that do not fit neatly into this pattern of deployment and use.
| + | [[ohMedia|ohMedia]] is an open standard that allows the seamless interaction of media within your home. |
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- | The OpenHome Operating System, ohOs, fills this gap by providing a place to deploy software that can be used not only by a single individual but by all the members of a household. And in doing so ohOs opens the way for applications that:
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- | * Allow householders to access and control a wide range of domestic appliances, such as lights, media players, and security cameras, organized from the perspective of the home as a whole.
| + | [[ohNet|ohNet]] is a modern cross platform networking stack. |
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- | [Illustration of someone controlling lights using an iPad]
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- | * Allow householders to view, share, and maintain structured information that is meaningful in the context of the home, such as a calendars, family address books, or photo albums.
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- | [Illustration of someone putting doctors appointment into family calendar]
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- | * Provide opportunities for creativity and fun within a family or other domestic setting.
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- | [Illustration of more than one person jointly doing a crossword?]
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- | * Provide rich, user-friendly, non-expert control over otherwise technically challenging networking facilities, such as parental control over internet access.
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- | [Illustration of a child unable to access the internet at night]
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- | * Provide a trusted domain for archiving and messaging with all information preserved within the boundary of the domestic network.
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- | [Illustration of someone storing the code for a safe?]
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- | ohOs achieves this by providing lightweight, always-on, networked computing with applications that be deployed from a readily accessible App Store. More details are avaliable here.
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- | = ohMedia =
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- | UPnP AV is the most successful non-OpenHome open standard that attempt
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- | = Implementations =
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- | OpenHome maintains that open standards are best accompanied by real-world implementations of those standards. This ensures that they are both fit for use and immediately available for use.
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- | In pursuit of this principle, OpenHome publishes an ever-growing suite of high quality, open software that is actively maintained and in many cases already proven in successful commercial products.
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- | This includes:
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- | * ohNet, the OpenHome networking stack, which facilitates the creation of service-oriented, SOAP-based networking software with inherent UPnP support.
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- | * ohSongcast, which implements OpenHome standards for one-to-many transmission of audio around a home network
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- | * ohNetworkMonitor, which provides facilities for troubleshooting home networking problems
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