Copyright (C) 2012, Allison Randal. Sam is a smart home appliance, or Smart Apartment Monitor (a backronym). LICENSE This code is distributed under the terms of the MIT License. For more details, see the full text of the license in the file 'LICENSE'. INSTALLATION Before running Sam, you'll need several libraries. The core requirements are ZeroMQ, and the python daemon library: $ sudo apt-get install python-zmq $ sudo apt-get install python-daemon The TinkerForge brick APIs (used for collecting sensor data, like temperature, humidity, and light levels) require a daemon downloaded from the TinkerForge website, which depends on Twisted, GUDev, and libusb: $ sudo apt-get install python-twisted python-gudev libusb-1.0-0 $ wget http://download.tinkerforge.com/tools/brickd/linux/brickd_linux_latest.deb $ sudo dpkg -i brickd_linux_latest.deb If you want to do web scraping (for collecting weather information) install BeautifulSoup: $ sudo apt-get install python-beautifulsoup For voice recognition, install PocketSphinx: $ sudo apt-get install python-pocketsphinx gstreamer0.10-pocketsphinx USAGE Sam can be started directly from the source directory with the command: make testrun