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This site will try to explain and give some tips on how to build and use some hardware and software to give you a easier way to live.
Give your computer the ability to measure temperature and react on changes. Turn on and off lights at specific times or why not at sunset / sunrise. Why not keep track of who is calling?
There are loads of cool stuff you can do without spending loads of $$$. Check out the how-to section to get a startingpoint. If you want to get notified on changes to this site, subscribe to my RSS-feed. The feed will give you articles from the tips and tricks-blog.
Speak
An easy way to get your computer to speak is the object SAPI.SpVoice
A small Powershell-file:
$spv = new-object -com SAPI.SpVoice
$spv.speak($args)
$spv = $null
Then call it like “.\speak.ps1 Say something”
Automated web-visit
I have a webservice that I need to visit to get it to catch new stuff from RSS-feeds. But since it is hosted on a server where I cant run a cron-job I made a small script that i run from Eventghost.
On Error Resume Next
Set oXml = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
oXml.Open "GET", "http://lifestream.ronnkvist.nu/cron/blaha/blaha", False
oXml.Send ""
‘Remove comment to output [...]
Outside temp, last 7 days
Current temperature
