Some MisterHouse features
Check here for a list of hardware in Bruce's house.
- Executes actions based on voice input, time of day, file data, serial port data, and socket data.
Serial and speech data can also be read or written to proxies on remote boxes.
- It has a web interface to allow control and feedback from any browser, either
on a local intranet or on the internet. Check the Winter's house at
http://mh.misterhouse.net
- On Windows systems, it uses OLE calls to the free MS VR and TTS engines for voice recognition and text->speech.
The high quality AT&T NaturalVoices TTS engine may also be used.
If using IE, you can enable remote VR and TTS using an MS Agent.
- On Unix systems, it uses the free Festival, flite, IBM ViaVoice and non-free AT&T NaturalVoices
TTS speech engines for text->speech and on Linux
IBM's ViaVoice engine for voice recognition. These engines can also be called from Windows
version of mh.
- Reads/writes any data from any serial attached device.
- Speaks the speed, course, and position of vehicles, by interfacing to a ham radio modem (TNC).
Brian Klier wrote
has a nice article about it.
You can see our car position logs here
- Sends/receives X10 data from the
X10 CM11 (ActiveHome) interface
- Sends wireless X10 data using the
X10 CM17 (Firecracker) interface
- Send/receive data to the Ibutton family of devices,
including the weather station.
- Reads/writes data from the
JDS interfaces (Stargate, Time Commandar, HomeBase) interface
- Reads/writes data from the
HomeVision interfaces
- Reads/writes serial port data from the
Weeder Technologies PIC kits
that can process X10, digital, analog, callerID, and outgoing phone data.
- Reads/writes to Applied Digital's
CPU-XA and Ocelot interfaces via the cpuxad socket deamon.
- Reads data from
IRman infrared receiver serial interface
and writes to
X10 IR Commander
wireless interface.
- Code has been written for DSC Alarm pannels, Stargate LCD displays, Alpha BetaBrite LED displays, Slinke IR send/receive,
Marrick X10, RCI X10 sprinklers, Xantech preamps,
ISDN modems, voice modems, ComPool and Aqualink pool equipment.
- Reads and writes from the
lcdproc server
which interfaces to inexpensive LCD modules and keypads.
- Shares a modem for caller ID and paging.
- Reads/writes internet mail, http, and ftp files unattended.
- Sends/receive instant messages using AIM, MSN, or Jabber
- Reads MS Outlook, Unix ical, or the built in Organizer
calendar for event reminders and VCR programing.
- Uses free internet TV web pages to allow for VCR programing and show reminders.
- Has an entertaining 'chatbox' web page that will listen to all your problems.
- Can monitor NetGear RT311 / RT314 or LinkSys syslog router traffic, so you can track
stuff like incoming web hits and online game time.
- Uses Voice XML to interface to tellme.com. To try it,
dial 1-800-555-Tell, then after you ear 'tellme more', enter 1-46630 (1-HOME0).
With a XML browser (e.g. IE), you can see a test vxml menu here
- Use simple menu templates to generate menus for LCD, VXML, or WAP phones. If you have a WAP
phone or WAP browser, you can see this test menu
with this url: http://mh.misterhouse.net/sub?menu_wml.
You can also walk the menus with an html browser with a frames version
or a a simpler version .
These menus can also be controled with a single switch (e.g. air sip switch for the disabled), using
audible feedback to select items/states.
You can also drive menus with an SSH client, like this phone example
- Logs weather data to the
wunderground personal weather project. Here's
weather logs from my house
- Here is a list of some users written code files
along with standard code files
that demonstrate some other MisterHouse features.
- You can use RSS readers to track various data, like
phone or
speak logs.
- Control of RoboSapien, ESRA, and ER1 robots.
Some pictures and videos are in misterhouse.net/public/robot/.
- Uses the rrd program to generate
weather graphs.
- Support for
xAP and
xPL home automation protocols.