From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-10-24T04:13:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23074] Re: Home automation and Ruby (a repost)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Erik Meade <emeade@geekfarm.org>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 2:07 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:23071] RE: Home automation and Ruby (a repost)


> I'm willing to take a look.  I'm new to ruby and know nothing
> about homeseer.  So my "help" may not be much help.

Thanks, Erik...

If you understand COM, that might help. I don't.

It would make my day to see this work. The software is
pretty cool (even if it is Window-only :)) and extremely
scriptable, but I really don't like VB much.

Hal

 
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hal E. Fulton [mailto:hal9000@hypermetrics.com]
> > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 8:33 PM
> > To: ruby-talk ML
> > Subject: [ruby-talk:23008] Home automation and Ruby (a repost)
> > 
> > 
> > I posted this three days ago... forgive my persistence, 
> > but I can't believe *no one* is interested in this (in a 
> > forum with a high geek quotient such as this one).
> > 
> > Come on, guys... being able to say "Ruby runs my
> > house" is a whole new level of coolness...  ;)
> > 
> > Original post below.
> > 
> > Hal
> > 
> > ============================
> > Hello all...
> > 
> > I'm an enthusiast of a piece of home automation software
> > called HomeSeer (www.homeseer.com). Disclaimer: I'm
> > unrelated to them except as a customer.
> > 
> > By default it supports VBscript and Jscript... and people
> > have made Perl and Python work.
> > 
> > With arton's ActiveScriptRuby, I thought it should be 
> > possible to get Ruby to work in HS also.
> > 
> > Rich Helmke (a HomeSeer developer) told me it was
> > easy from his end to add Ruby support... he sent me a
> > patched version for me to try.
> > 
> > I installed ASR and ran my patched executable. But I 
> > couldn't run a Ruby program within it. No clue why.
> > 
> > arton (ASR author) was willing to help, but HS won't
> > run on a Japanese Windows system.
> > 
> > Rich @ HS was willing to help, but doesn't know Ruby.
> > 
> > Anyone interested in looking at this?
> > 
> > Hal
> > 
> >