Re: (Mostly OT) Using a remote with perl?

[andreychek]

I was considering doing something like this using X10. You could do everything you need with the Active Home hardware. The pieces you would use are:

• X10 Remote Control
• X10 Transceiver Module (take the remote's RF signals and push them across your power line)
• X10 Computer Interface

With those, you could generate signals on the remote, and see them from your computer.

On the software end of things, there's a number of choices available to you. Misterhouse is one of my favorites. It's a software package written in Perl that interacts with X10 devices. You could easily program it to control XMMS based on what X10 signals it seems going across your power line.

This sounds like a fun project. Good luck with it,

-Eric