Re: Re: Newbie Greetings-Long Post

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 11 February 2002 16:50 pm, Doug Woolridge wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions Daniel!
>
> An update: (in case anyone's interested)
>
> I played around with Misterhouse this weekend, and it does seem very
> powerful. This is by no means a slam on Misterhouse, but I am going to
go
> with Homeseer. Misterhouse seems to require all setup (X10, etc. to be
done
> by writing Perl scripts (someone please correct me if I'm wrong!).  I
can
> see Misterhouse as a great option for the poweruser who is, or wants
to
> become, familiar with Perl. I wouldn't have a problem with this, but
my
> SWMBO probably wouldn't want to go through that learning curve to
change
> her wakeup routine.  I plan to monitor Misterhouse to see how it
develops.

You're right, in order to add new functionality to MH, you have to
learn/know
perl, though it is possible to write functions to allow SWMBO to change
alarm
times via the web interface. (but I suspect this wasn't the only thing
stopping you using MrHouse :-)

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