Category Archives: Cellar Control

Yet Another Mr. Cellar Install

Each time I install/setup this system, I learn a little more. Biggest lesson learned: keep better notes! And thus this blog entry. So, from the top, this install is on kT’s old laptop, a Dell Lattitude CPi with only 500 mGhz power and 128 MB ram. Running WinXp (sorry Linuxers, but I still need win [...]
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Back to Working with Cellar Control

Zipped Mr. Cellar Files Updated February 13, 2008 After spend the past couple of weeks attempting to get an instance of mc working on a Linux (Ubuntu) box, time has run out for the time being and it’s become important to get mc running, so I’ve switched back to setting up a winXP box to [...]
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Install MH

There’s decent information about putting Misterhouse onto an XP box from their site. I just had a couple notes to add. For my purposes, installing the full version of Perl made sense. There were a few perl modules that I had to install to get the job done, and I believe that you’d want the [...]
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Some Details

Added a category for Cellar Control, so these will be a little easier to find/organize. First set of details should be acknowledgment for those who helped me with this project. There were many points along the way that it felt a little too out there for my level of skills. Most of this stuff is [...]
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Helpful Links

Most of these sites have much more to them than the page provided. A little exploring resulted in lots of info. Tizag One of the best resources I’ve come across on the net for php, perl and mysql. Plain english with examples. Perl01 Some perl basics. Perl02 Nice forum with a host of knowledgeable AND [...]
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Cellar Control Project

At the core of the software package that controls our cellar, is a perl script program that was started by Bruce Winter called Mr. House. The script that reads the temperatures from the 1-wire circuit is Digitemp and was written by Brian C. Lane. Key to having everything work together was setting up a virtual [...]
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