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[Gene Heskett]

Claude Jones wrote:
> On Saturday July 08 2006 10:35 am, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> The major side effect of the shutdown is the lack of evening lighting
>> automation, the missus likes to have the porch lights on when she comes
>> in from bowling.  But she got used to it. :)
> 
> Now, that's interesting. How do you set that up, Gene? 

Small scripts that run heyu and xtend from crontab entries.  I setup the 
xtend stuff so when I go to the basement to play pool, I can take an x10 
keypad along and run the music piped in from the computer from down 
there.  None of its magic unless your technological level is bronze age. :)

For the lighting, I broke the day into 3 pieces, daytimes when it 
ignores the output of an eagle-eye, evenings it turns on the christmas 
lighting from about dusk to whenever she is expected to be in for the 
night ignoring the eagle-eye then too, and a nightime mode where a 
signal from the eagle-eye turns them on for about 5 minutes, either as 
an obvious motion detector response, or for Dee to fish her keys out & 
find the lock in case she out late for cigarettes.

Each script kills its predecessor, and then sets up how its to run till 
the next script kills it.  Bash, the universal language.

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Cheers, Gene