If you could create a bill of materials for receiver and blaster that would be nice.
I am ok with soldering but not sure what pieces to get.

I already have a Pi
And my soldering skills are not too bad.
I just need a list of electronic pieces and can help to test.

That would be great.
Looking forward to it. Gives us a 35$ ethernet ir blaster

Sounds great. I am actually looking for a solution to send IR using the Pi as ir blaster. Here http://www.irblaster.info/blog/2007/04/lirc-on-router.html they said that it should be possible with the GPIO pins from the Pi. Some code could be found in the openwrt software. Can anybody be of some help?

OpenRemote runs on the Pi and has support for X10.
Maybe you want to take a look at: www.openremote.org

The openjdk does not include JIT.
Only the Oracle EJRE does include JIT for arm.

Using the debian image and updating to "wheezy" the OpenJDK with IcedTeat cacao runs without any problems. I have Tomcat and the OpenRemote controller running on it without any problems. The "cacao" VM performs much better then ZeroVM but it has a bug in debian "squeeze"...

Maybe openremote.org will be a solution, if Java is running fine on the Pi and the RXTX lib can be compiled.

OpenRemote is strongly looking into using the Pi as a low cost 24/7 controller box for home automation.

Unfortunately we are still waiting on our first delivery.