It’s been a while since I’ve done anything with these pages, and since then, a lot has changed.
Both the hardware I’m using and the Internet Services available.
When I first looked at using the sweex router for hardware control, access to the router from the Internet meant opening a port on your router, and running a web server.
But today, it is possible to use a chat server somewhere on the Internet to make the link between you and your devices – or your devices and each other!
There is also Openfire a Java Chat / Jabber server that will run on just about any server you can install a Java SDK on. Run this at one site (opening the necessary firewall ports), and you can have two way communication with hardware at any other net connected site.
As Soon as I get the time, I’ll be writing up how to flash the router from scratch with stock openwrt midge and control its i/o ports using a Jabber / Chat client on an Android Phone.