"Mr. Science, meet Mister House"

WALLY KISSEL

Summary

Marketplace solutions or commodity computing will need the appropriate 'software glue' to be used in an accelerator operation environment. An open source Perl based home automation program called 'Mister House' has been introduced into the FermiLab Operations Department. Running on either PC or UNIX platforms, MH provides the modest Perl programmer with hooks into; Speech Synthesis, Voice Recognition, wave playback, X10 RF remote control, TCPIP connections, Web access, system calls, and keystroke input to user applications. Convenient functionality continues to evolve in our control room environment.