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Misterhouse - a Home Driven by Perl Scripts
An anonymous submitter copies from the website: "MisterHouse is an open source home automation program. It's fun, it's free, and it's entirely geeky. Written in Perl, it fires events based on time, web, socket, voice, and serial data. It currently runs on Windows 95/98/NT/2k/XP and on most Unix based platforms, including Linux and Mac OSX. It can talk, it can check your messages, control the lights, program your VCR, and what is best - it understands spoken commands. It can even track your car by interfacing to a TNC. And there are 600 users and 209 authors contributing to this project. Cool, eh?"
This may be the first time that we can slashdot a house!
...none of it will work properly when Perl 6 comes out.
209 Perl programmers coding scripts to run my house. Who would be insane enough to run that code? All thoughts about the maintainability of Perl aside I find I require my house to do very little text processing.
... will he still be able to unlock the door when he gets home from work?
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MISTERHOUSE: I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that...
Yikes!
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Simply shout "Shut the curtains, switch off the lights, disable the alarm and unlock the front door" through the letter box.
Now if only we can get a coffee machine that's compatible with this, I'll be set. :-)
Of course, the other thing to worry about here is security -- I sure would hate to get 0wn3d by some idiot who then had the power to play with my lights, change my channels, etc. I know the easy crack here is to say "then just don't run it on Windoze!", but I won't take that road because RedHat, etc. are almost as vulnerable if improperly configured.
How To Get Humans To Mars
1. Start a project /.
2. Succeed in making a good project
3. Get noticed by
4. Loose your bandwith allocation for the next year
5. Go under because the bandwith nazi creditors are after your free project.
Looks like they are midway between 3 and 4... huummm =P
hmm... does the choice of language has anything to do with the last name of Larry Wall?
Course listing at the local Home Depot:
7:30 Kitchen and Bathroom Tile installation
8:30 Decorator Paint techniques
9:00 Perl syntax for home automation
Name your house's components:
my($Wall) = "Larry";
Don't hit me with that chain again.
After all . . .
.) your not really sure whose member method your picking it up with. Using the bathroom is right out.
The house that PERL built:
. . . has more entrances than you know what to do with, and most of them lead to the same room anyway. Random geeks walk by and obfuscate your living room for fun.
The house that RUBY built:
. . . makes eating dinner confusing, as when you drop your spork (an instance of class spork, which multiply inherits from classes spoon and fork, two subclasses of class utensil, a subclass of . .
The house that LUA built:
. . . swing at the large rat. You hit! The large rat disappears in a cloud of red mist. You have killed the large rat. The grid bug misses. The grid bug misses. You are jolted by the grid bug. There is a fountain here. Do you drink from it? (y/n) Your god is angry with you. Curse the day that all the nethack and angband developers integrated lua into their games. The grid bug misses . . .
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Looks like we just brought the house down...
badum-bum.. thank you! I'll be here all week.
Didn't someone living near Seattle build a big ass mansion with all this in it? How'd that work out for him?
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
YOU: "Mrs. House, turn on the TV."
MRS.HOUSE: "Turn it on yourself, ya lazy bum!"
serial input detects a change on a window sensor...
MRS.HOUSE: "I heard a noise... go see what it was!"
-- "Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?"
* snap to attention at your presence and stand at ease when you've passed
And they'd have Genuine People Personalities? It'd be a door's pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done?
I'm not too sure if its all a good idea. Don't forget that history has shown the marketing division who came up with GPP to be a bunch of mindless jerks who were first up against the wall when the revolution came.
"I'm tired of all this 'Aren't humanity great' bullshit. We're a virus with shoes" - Bill Hicks
Huh. Why BlueTooth? If you just want it to initiate events while you move around/through the house, just put one of those RFID tags in your pocket and put sensors in all of the doorways. (Supposedly the sensors can only pick up the tags within a few feet.) This way you don't have any hardware that you still might drop/misplace/etc...
Hell, just tape/glue/insert an RFID tag to your arm (like a nicotine patch or something) and you can walk around your house naked and still have everything working.
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The whole house consists of one room, but with the power of Flash, Farrell never needs to leave that room. "I'm a little uncomfortable taking a leak the same place where I sleep and fry my eggs, but never having to walk more than 5 feet is pretty nice."
So...what? He sleeps in the toilet or pees into the range top or fries his eggs on his bed?
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
and what is best - it understands spoken commands.
I believe I'll be turning it off during sex.
The coolest voice ever.
Ok. Let's get one thing straight here. I do NOT want my house handling kitchen knives and other pointy objects. "I noticed you and [insert spouse here] had a fight. They have been buried out in the yard. I am sure you will be pleased."
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"You really don't need MisterHouse to do that. That's an unnecessary level of complexity."
Dammit, you are not going to talk me out of buying cool little LCD panels and other assorted hardware and fiddling with this for weeks on end to get it going.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
I wanted to find out more about Mr. House, so I got a fresh cup from Mr. Coffee, and sat down at Mr. Computer. It wasn't working, so I checked Mr. Radar - it was jammed - yes, with Raspberry!
Only one person would have enough nerve to give me the Raspberry:
Lonestar!
(With Apologies to Mel Brooks)
-- You are in a maze of little, twisty passages, all different... --
What would make you think Radio Shack would have answers? Has their slogan misled you? You know, the one often misheard as "You've got questions. We've got answers."
Turns out that's not really the slogan, it's just being misinterpreted through slight of tongue on their part and your subconscious saying, "They didn't just say that!" But they really did just say that.
The slogan is actually, "You've got questions. We've got Assholes."
How are you going to keep them down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus?
on my house, and now it won't let me in! That's the last time I download from the obfuscated home automation script section.
-jc
..that when you lose something in your house, you can regexp for it? ;)
Did you see the speech output? My favorite quote:
"Notice, there were 668 web hits from 74 clients in the last day."
Heh... wonder what the speech output for today will be...
"My mind is going... Dave..."
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
Homer Simpson could do well selling this thing. "Mister House, that's my name, that name again is Mister House!"
Use Ctrl-C instead of ESC in Vim!