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I am using misterhouse to drive my home automation system in my house. One of the things I like is to receive alerts on certain events. For example when it starts raining and one of the windows is left open I like to know.  A good way to receive alerts is via SMS messages on my mobile phone.  I started coding so that misterhouse can sent SMS alerts.  In the misterhouse code there was already some code to use a service at www.smsboy.com Because I am using voipbuster for my VOIP needs I changed the code for that. (more…)

If you have followed my guide to install misterhouse on an openwrt router you may use it as proxy. A misterhouse proxy is used to offload slow hardware interfaces or slow processes from the main misterhouse process. Another reason could be that you cannot connect some hardware physically to your main misterhouse box but like to have that hardware available to your main misterhouse box. Gregg from the misterhouse mailing list pointed me to the Xap protocol support build into the misterhouse code. So I started testing out the code. (more…)

The next device I added to my misterhouse proxy running on my router is the Velleman K8055 IO board. This is a USB powered experimental IO board with 8 outputs, 5 inputs, 2 DAC outputs and 2 analog inputs. I used the k8055 openwrt kernel module from the sourceforge project homepage. (more…)

After installing misterhouse on my openwrt router I started adding devices. I plugged a 1-wire usb interface into my router and started playing around. There are at least two software programs that work for me in openwrt kamikaze 8.09 (more…)

Misterhouse is home automation software written in perl. Because it is written in perl it can run on any OS that has perl binaries so even on a small router that runs openwrt. If you don’t have openwrt already running on your hardware first follow my guide to install openwrt with USB media for extra space.

The first step is to install perl and all the modules misterhouse need . (more…)