First Steps

Point your web browser to the MisterHouse web server 8080 if you're running headless (without a monitor or gui) or http://localhost:8080 if you're on the actual computer. Then try out a few commands. You can search or list commands using the 'Search String' menu from the Search icon in the upper right of the default /ia5 web page. To list all commands, search on a blank string.

The default setup runs only a few core scripts from mh/code/common directory (listed in data_dir/code_select.txt). You can use the http://localhost:8080/bin/code_select.pl menu (default web page -> MrHouse Home -> Setup MrHouse -> Common Code Activation) to select other standard code files you want to run.

Code that you tick and activate will be added to the code_select.txt file in the /opt/misterhouse/data directory and will automatically be run when MisterHouse is restarted. As you add mode code files (.pl files) to the /opt/misterhouse/code directory and restart MisterHouse, they will appear on the User Code Activation page.

To quickly test many of the code files, from the command line run: mh -code_select code_select.txt

To use less memory and cpu, or if you get graphics related errors, you can run without the local gui interface with: mh -tk 0

As well as the web interface you can also use telnet: Try 'telnet <mhipaddress></mhipaddress> 1234' and type any of the commands you saw on the web interface (e.g. 'say something mean' from mh/code/common/goofy.pl).

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