From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-10-26T15:40:51+09:00
Subject: Re: x10 and ruby?

Paul Lutus wrote:
> Hal Fulton wrote:
> 
> / ...
> 
> 
>>But, considering it runs on Windows, HS is good software. It's the best
>>home automation software I've seen -- better than misterhouse,
>>smarthouse, Cyberhome, HAL, Home Director, the X10 thingy, or anything
>>else I've looked at. Just my opinion.
> 
> 
> Well, thanks for setting me straight on HomeSeer. I didn't realize the
> effort level they've gone to. It sounds quite powerful.
> 
> Too bad it's married to Windows, as so much is these days.
> 

Yes... I'd love to have a Linux equivalent.

I dreamed of using Festival for speech synthesis and Sphinx for
voice recognition... trouble is, I couldn't get these to work
on their own, much less integrated with each other and a third
controller.

I once outlined something I called "Domo" -- but it will never
be written. I removed the link from my page, but it's still at
http://rubyhacker.com/domo.html

Some people were confused by my use of the word "server" -- I
meant it in the software sense, not the hardware. Although
the processes could be split among boxes, they could also all
run on the same box.


Hal