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Conclusion
As you've seen with the example using the teakettle, there are comparatively few pieces of software needed to smartly
automate a house. Once you can process incoming e-mails or text messages and issue an X10 command, then the task
of “e-mailing your teakettle” becomes a simple matter of combining the two scripts in a trivial (almost banal!) fashion.
The next level of interest is generated from the usability features and the specificity of function. Usability is something
you can add only after living with the configuration for a while—having Festival use speech synthesis to say “the
teakettle has boiled” is an easy technological change but is something so uniquely specific that only a geek living in
the environment could actualize it with such effortless precision. Make the most of the opportunity.
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