Home Automation

Ultimate goal: implement home automation or IoT system on a budget.

A few components on my radar:

IoT systems:
meshblu - https://github.com/octoblu/meshblu
the thing system - https://github.com/TheThingSystem/steward
kaa - https://github.com/kaaproject/kaa
contiki - https://github.com/contiki-os/contiki
freeboard - https://github.com/Freeboard/freeboard

Home automation systems:
openhab - https://github.com/openhab/openhab or https://github.com/openhab/openhab2
homegenie - https://github.com/genielabs/HomeGenie.git
domoticz - https://github.com/domoticz/domoticz

Devices:
raspberry pi 2
esp8266

Helpful blogs or other resources:
http://www.datamation.com/open-source/35-open-source-tools-for-the-internet-of-things-1.html
http://tech.scargill.net/esp8266-and-mqtt-a-marriage-made-in-heaven/
http://tuanpm.net/native-mqtt-client-library-for-esp8266/
https://gcoupe.wordpress.com/2015/03/15/home-automation-revisited/