Home Automation with Perl and X10

Slides for this talk are available here.

Looking for a plant watering system that checks with the weather service before turning on the pump? Or a way to switch on your living room lights via Gaim over the Internet? Hard-reboot your buggy router every week?

With Perl and cheap X10 hardware, it's easy to come up customized home automation solutions. This talk presents a few examples from a somewhat unusual household.