Carlos, > Doug, Have you tried the MisterHouse software? > misterhouse.net I finally took a look at this. I smiled when I read 'MisterHouse -- It Knows Kung-Fu' ... then I said WOW when I saw the features ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Executes actions based on voice input, time of day, file data, serial port data, and socket data. It has a web interface to allow control and feedback from any browser, either on a local intranet or on the internet. On Windows systems, it uses OLE calls to the free MS VR and TTS engines for voice recognition and text->speech. If using IE, you can enable remote VR and TTS using an MS Agent. On Unix systems, it uses the free Festival, flite, and IBM ViaVoice TTS speech engines for text->speech and on Linux IBM's ViaVoice engine for voice recognition. 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). Reads/writes X10 data from the X10 CM11 (ActiveHome) interface. Writes 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, 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 or Jabber Reads MS Outlook or Unix ical calendars 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 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 hear 'tellme more', enter 1-46630 (1-HOME0). 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: href=http://misterhouse.net:8080/sub?menu_wml. You can also walk the menus with an html browser here. 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. Logs weather data to the wunderground personal weather project. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sounds like Bruce is having "Way Too Much Fun" (tm) Vert reminiscent of my "Cats Net" hacking ... http://java.sun.com/features/2000/06/jeniuses.html What you don't see in the above article is that PERL is in there too, gluing stuff together and "more than just extracting and reporting" <g> The challenge re wearbles, or one of many, is how to come up with a user interface paradigm that makes sense for various alternative I/O and also allows for some intelligent management, sorting, filtering, and associating of data. I found these articles to be very interesting ... http://www.acm.org/cacm/AUG96/antimac.htm http://www.media.mit.edu/~carsonr/pdf/AntiFilter.pdf http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~benjamin/AUI/ http://lieber.www.media.mit.edu/people/lieber/Teaching/Context/Out-of-Context-Paper/Out-of-Context.html http://www.dfki.de/~jameson/pdf/pete01.jameson.pdf http://www.cs.cornell.edu/boom/2001/Kubo/CUU-jburrell.doc http://www.cs.cornell.edu/boom/2001/Kubo/chi01_jburrell.pdf It easy to "interface sutff" and "invoke stuff" ... but coming up a good paradigm for invocation and info mgmt and association, context, content mgmt etc, that's a whole other ball of wax. -- Doug -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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