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= Overview =
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= 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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= ohOs =
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== ohMedia ==
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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 applications that do not fit neatly into this pattern of deployment and use.
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[[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 is for use 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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== ohNet ==
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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.
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[[ohNet|ohNet]] is a modern cross platform networking stack.
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[Illustration of someone controlling lights using an iPad-like device]
 
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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 car servicing appointment into a family calendar using an iPad-like device]
 
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* Provide opportunities for creativity and fun within the family or other domestic setting.
 
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[Illustration of householders jointly doing a crossword using a range of devices?]
 
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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 from their bedroom at night with happy care-free parents downstairs?]
 
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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 using an iPhone-like device?]
 
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ohOs achieves this by providing lightweight, always-on, networked computing with applications that can be installed from a readily accessible app store and used by any web-browser-enabled device. 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 developed in accompaniment with 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 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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Latest revision as of 15:36, 10 February 2015

OPENHOME

ohMedia

ohMedia is an open standard that allows the seamless interaction of media within your home.

ohNet

ohNet is a modern cross platform networking stack.