Lirc Based Control Processor

[Ben N. <bno...@nc...>]

I am an audio video systems integrator.  In my profession, we are now seeing very powerful control processors.  They tie all your a/v/automation systems together via IR/Serial/Relay connections.  They are also very expensive and have limited programming capabilities.  

It seems to me that an embedded linux installation on an SBC or a Gumstix processor could be made more cheaply and much more powerful than these systems.  Is there such a project?  Is anyone interested in doing such a project?