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Hardware Actions and Notifications System

HANS is a Hardware Actions and Notifications Syste that allows your plugable hardware to express itself. It's also a reimplementation of the old Hermes project.

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In the past, there were no app o system that were supposed to notificate to the user when a new decided was being pluged. Neither there was any way the user could choose a action for a non-standard deviced (CD, DVD, udb-stick and so), such to install a specific software to use it, to launch a specific application, load a kernel module, etc. That's is why Guadalinex project decide (back in the 2005) to create Hermes a hardware notification system that let the user to chuose come actions and decide what to do with some gadgets that weren't supported upstream.

Devices that HANS should manage

• dvb-t: receptores de televisión digital terrestre (TDT)
• mouse: ratones USB
• bluetooth: receptores bluetooth
• pda: agendas electrónicas
• printer: impresoras USB
• modem3g: modems 3G tanto USB como PCMCIA
• memorycard: lectores USB de tarjetas SD, XD, CF...
• scanner: escaneres USB (sólo los soportados por el proyecto SANE)
• smartcard: lector de tarjetas inteligentes (se soporta el DNIe)
  • DNIe
  • CERES
  • JdA
• tablet: tabletas digitalizadoras USB
• webcam: cámaras web USB
• camera: cámaras de fotografías conectadas por USB
• joystick: palancas de juegos USB
• keyboard: teclados USB
• wireless: tarjetas USB de red inalámbrica (WIFI)
• mobilephone: telefonos móviles a través de USB
• ebook: libros electrónicos mediante USB
• wiimote: mando de la wii, a través de Bluetooth
• ipod: reproductores MP3 de Apple.
• arduino: tarjeta multifuncional de hardware libre
• pcmcia: tarjetas de memoria PCMCIA

All these devices will have an action associated.