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Misterhouse - a Home Driven by Perl Scripts

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Huh... by knowledgepeacewi · · Score: 0, Troll

    Europe? never heard of it....

    Is that like one of those imaginary places in the Dr. Suess books, where everyone destroyed everything before they became smart and moved to America?

  2. To your arm.. by fireboy1919 · · Score: 0, Troll

    IIRC someone invented a system of attaching watches to people's arms so that they could go anywhere and still tell time.

    I believe they called the device a "strap." Yes, I'm sure that's it. It is a slight improvement over gluing things to your arms, especially when attempting take showers.

    Perhaps that would be a better approach, if you can find such newfangled technologies.

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  3. IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    In Soviet Russia, Perl House automates you!

  4. Re:Bluetooth by Blahbbs · · Score: 0, Troll
    If you're geeky enough to get this all working, chances are you probably don't have anyone else around anyway.

    /shudders at thought of previously mentioned naked geek walking around house with RFID taped to leg...