MisterHouse is a Unix/Windows home automation program written in Perl. It can respond to voice commands, Web browsers, time of day, serial port and X10 data, external files, etc., and can speak via Text to Speech engines.
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Support was added for AudioTron, Concept alarms, Caddx alarms, Linux NaturalVoice, Clipsal CBUS, Mac OS X, UIRT2 IR, and Lynx X10. Other additions include a new Web menu interface, improved IM support, better Web caching, lower CPU usage, proxy support, Web based code selection, numbered menus, improved Caller ID, multi-user logins, stacked and overloaded object states, and xAP/xPL protocol support.
Support was added for Linksys routers, DSS boxes,
xmms, Audrey callerid, Redrat, BX24, standard cgi
scripts, TTS flite engine, Radio Shack wireless
wmr968 and Peet Brothers Ultimeter2000 weather
stations, Lynx10 X10, and remote TTS over IP.
Other additions include a new Web interface for
touch screens, multiple sound card support, Web
and Tk picture frames, comic strips, a Web
calendar/contact/todo list, an MSN interface, and
a TWiki site.
Many Web enhancements were added, including browser-dependent Web pages, Web
server forking, config file editing, output of TTS into remote WAV files,
zap2it TV support, pictureframe and webcab pages, and new pages for smaller
Internet appliances like the Audrey. Other updates include better TTS control
(e.g. voice, rate, volume, pitch, fast, slow, stop, pause), support for call
waiting, caller ID, DTFM phone control, lower CPU usage, and an improved
holiday database.
A new audible menu option for walking menus with just one or 2 switches (e.g., air sip switches for the disabled), serving of data in XML format, viavoice TTS voice selection, MAC OS X support, Jandy AquaLink pool controler support, wireless X10 MR26 support, Linux volume control, and many other changes.
This release includes menu templates for LCD
keypads, the vxml voice portal tellme.com, and WML
for WAP cell phones. Also earthquake and iridium
satellite flash tracking, send and receive AOL AIM
messages, new event based tie* methods, and
auto-backup code.
