The NetHomeServer is a software/hardware project for home automation. The core functionality of the server is to integrate functions like lamp control, temperature measurements and control of audio and video equipment into one framwork where it is possible to mix and match devices from different vendors and build features which integrate functions from all kind of units.

From a developer prespective it provides simple unified interfaces towards all kinds of devices.

The framework itself is written in Java and therefore can run on most avaliable operating systems. However, the server exposes several external interfaces such as Telnet (TCP/IP), UDP/IP and SOAP which provides full access to all internal functions.