Article:		Home Automation with Mac OS X, Part 2
Subject:		MisterHouse
Date:		2004-02-25 09:49:32
From:		queueball
I have been looking into up some home automation for a little while now. I have been looking at some software called MisterHouse written in Perl. http://www.misterhouse.com/ I am wondering if anyone has gotten the software to to work on OSX and if anyone knows of a good place on the web with some notes/help on how to set it up with OSX? Thanks for the help Q

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• MisterHouse Works :)
  2004-03-01 05:59:25  queueball [View]
  
  
  Hello Everyone
  
  Well I spent some of Saterday evening and Sunday morning setting up MisterHouse on my OS X machines. I got it working. However; I only have 1 light hooked up but it is a start. I guess next I need to start customizing it for my house. Right now it thinks the light module I have is in the Garage ;)
  The good news, I noticed that the modules work all over the house as long as the computer module is not buried between all the power/network wires in the computer room. I guess there is too much there to block the signal.
  I now look forward to expanding the system to something more useful :)
  
  P.S. This has been a helpful article and got me off my butt to work on it :) Thanks
  
  Later Days
  Q

• MisterHouse
  2004-02-28 07:05:40  coderanger [View]
  
  
  No, I have not tried that yet. But I have been able to compile Bottlerocket for the Firecracker and use it with both Keyspan and IOGear USB-Serial Adapters. It compiles "out of the box" but is commandline only. However it shoudl be easy to wrap a GUI around it if you like. I like simple tools and it works for me. There are many solutions out there for Unix and Linux and I intend to try them all and see what works, what can be made to work, and what doesn't. Then I might even write my own Java or ObjC application.
• MisterHouse
  2004-03-22 12:17:25  mmellor1 [View]
  
  
  What configurations did you use? I just tried to set up br using /dev/tty.US49...1.1 which compiled but didn't fire.