Yeah, I can't argue w/ that, Lee...  :^)

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Steps:

1.  Debianize the POGOE02, w/ a Squeeze installation on a 1GB flashdrive I have laying around.

Reasons for Debian instead of Optware:  package variety, compiler/build tools for native builds, ready-made kernel & modules - fairly new, uboot control via netcat

2.  Got webcam set up, using motion and the uvc.ko module, worked out-of-the-box

3.  Got digitemp and 1-Wire sensors working

- needed to blacklist the ds2490 module, since digitemp talks to the sensors via libusb (userspace), not via the kernel

- needed to recompile libusb, using this patch :   http://trac.nslu2-linux.org/optware/browser/trunk/sources/libusb/digitemp.pat...

and had to symlink my way around the installed (and partially faulty) libusb

- needed to compile digitemp 3.4.0, as the 3.5.0.deb package did not work correctly for me

4.  Set up scripts and cron jobs to collect round-robin data, and create graphs

5.  Put them together in a simple webpage, served out by lighttpd.  

6.  dyndns setup and update is via inadyn

7.  made the whole thing wireless, so it just needs a power supply, no ethernet cable - used wireless-tools, rt73usb module, wpasupplicant, and ralink-firmware

8.  I had to kludge a fix to the possibility of a dropped wireless connection ... once on a great while my TomatoUSB-ized Asus RT-N16 just drops a connection.  It doesn't look like the hardware or software/driver fails on my Pogodebian, its just a router-side hickup.  My temporary fix was just to restart networking on the Pogodebian every 15 minutes.    This is not optimal by a longshot - checking connectivity to some known reliable boxes here in my SOHO network is in order, first, before restarting networking.  

I found this very nice article : http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/simple-linux-and-unix-system-monitoring-with-pi...

... and have altered it to test some trusted/reliable hosts, and to attempt 1st a network restart, and if that doesn't work, reboot the pogodebian.  I've tested it w/ both router drops and USB disconnects - it seems robust enough to work in all cases.

9.  added a script to check to see that motion is running.  check for motion status logfile, create if not.

10.  Working on a status page (uptime, load, threads for motion)

11.  event programming...  

Check out my 1-Wire Weather Station/Cam hosted on a PogoPlug . . . . . http://davysweather.dyndns.org