Misterhouse - a Home Driven by Perl Scripts

Posted by michael on Friday May 2, 2003 @01:43AM from the driven-mad,-that-is dept.

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?"

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Re:/.'d already... by Neuropol · 2003-05-02 02:08 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It should be an option for Slashdot to offer to mirror sites for stories like this for a period of 24 hours or some thing.
Re:Wow! Feel the awsome power of the Slashdot Effe by tonysee · 2003-05-02 02:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Yeah, now for the rest of us who aren't subscribing, Slasdhot stories are 3 days and 20 minutes out of date, instead of just 3 days.

I just wish I could mod down the stupid notice that begs me to subscribe every time I come to the page.