Vaporware: Home Automation in Ruby

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From time to time I’ve asked (with little success) who in the
Ruby community was interested in home automation.

Now I’ve finally set all my thoughts down in a web page.

Being a little bit obsessive, I sat up all night working
on this, and even came up with a name (Domo) and created a
little logo.

As we all know, a software project is considered half-finished
once the T-shirts are designed. :wink:

This page is not linked from anywhere yet, but you can
find it at: http://rubyhacker.com/domo.html

Or if you somehow have a problem with that URL, try this one:
http://hypermetrics.com/rubyhacker/domo.html
which will get you to the same actual electrons.

I do hope know that I’ve fleshed this out a little more, that
someone out there will catch the vision.

It being 7:10 a.m. my time, I shall now go to bed.

Comments/criticism welcome.

Thanks,
Hal

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From time to time I’ve asked (with little success) who in the
Ruby community was interested in home automation.

Now I’ve finally set all my thoughts down in a web page.

Being a little bit obsessive, I sat up all night working
on this, and even came up with a name (Domo) and created a
little logo.

You might want to add that it’s the ablative of ‘domus’ (house) in
Latin to the FAQ.

As we all know, a software project is considered half-finished
once the T-shirts are designed. :wink:

Where’s the T-shirt??? Man, this is pre-vapourware!!! :slight_smile:

This page is not linked from anywhere yet, but you can
find it at: http://rubyhacker.com/domo.html

Or if you somehow have a problem with that URL, try this one:
http://hypermetrics.com/rubyhacker/domo.html
which will get you to the same actual electrons.

I do hope know that I’ve fleshed this out a little more, that
someone out there will catch the vision.

It being 7:10 a.m. my time, I shall now go to bed.

Comments/criticism welcome.

I was quite amazed when I read ‘What is home automation?’. Didn’t know
people were actually doing that.

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On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:08:04PM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:

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>From time to time I've asked (with little success) who in the
Ruby community was interested in home automation.

Wow, ouch. What guilt! :slight_smile: Okay, okay, so I haven't hunkered down and
written a full Home Automation toolset in Ruby ... so sue me, I'm
expecting my second child to be born (literally) any day now. (The
estimated due date was Jan 27-28.)

Now I've finally set all my thoughts down in a web page.

This page is not linked from anywhere yet, but you can
find it at: http://rubyhacker.com/domo.html

Very cool. This might be better off on a wiki, so others can edit and
contribute. Hmm.

Comments/criticism welcome.

Take the feature list and order it in priority order. Then, as we find
time, we'll build those bits. In a year or so, we might have something
of note. Or, we won't. Or, someone else will beat us to it.

-- Dossy

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On 2003.02.01, Hal E. Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:

--
Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy@panoptic.com
Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
    folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

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“Hal E. Fulton” hal9000@hypermetrics.com wrote in message
news:0b8801c2c9f3$4600f920$0300a8c0@austin.rr.com…

Or if you somehow have a problem with that URL, try this one:
http://hypermetrics.com/rubyhacker/domo.html
which will get you to the same actual electrons.

I only quickly browsed the page, but I’d like to point you attention to
TinyOS.
It’s an operating system used for self-organizing wireless networks of tiny
sensorchips with build in R/F.
Perfect for sensoring and possibly controlling a home.

http://webs.cs.berkeley.edu/tos/

Mikkel

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Ha ha! No guilt, Dossy. We’re all busy.

Congratulations on the offspring. I’d be busier, too,
if I were married with (or without) children.

Me, I just have a cat. Two if you count the one
in /bin.

Cheers,
Hal

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----- Original Message -----
From: “Dossy” dossy@panoptic.com
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org; hal9000@hypermetrics.com
Cc: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: Vaporware: Home Automation in Ruby

On 2003.02.01, Hal E. Fulton hal9000@hypermetrics.com wrote:

From time to time I’ve asked (with little success) who in the
Ruby community was interested in home automation.

Wow, ouch. What guilt! :slight_smile: Okay, okay, so I haven’t hunkered down and
written a full Home Automation toolset in Ruby … so sue me, I’m
expecting my second child to be born (literally) any day now. (The
estimated due date was Jan 27-28.)

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I have posted the beginning of some documentation of shell.rb at

http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?MarkWilson

I would appreciate any corrections, comments, suggestions or additions.
Also, please note that the rmdir method of the Shell::CommandProcessor
class does not seem to work.

Regards,

Mark Wilson