MisterHouse -- It Knows Kung-Fu


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.

Perl subroutines and objects are used to give a powerful programming interface. Here is some example code:

   $fountain = new X10_Item 'B1';
   set $fountain ON if time_now '6:00 PM';

   $movement_sensor = new Serial_Item 'XA2', 'stair';
   play(file => 'stairs_creek*.wav') if state_now $movement_sensor eq 'stair';

   $v_bedroom_curtain = new Voice_Cmd '[open,close] the bedroom curtains';
   curtain('bedroom', $state) if $state = said $v_bedroom_curtain;

Here is a list of the standard code files and a list of other user specific code files (index).

Here is some example speech output:


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