So with a little bit of this1 and a little bit of that2 I now have my TV controlling my house - dim the lights in the room , and turn off the lights out of the room when we start a film, etc.
xbmc: XBox Media Centre, some code that would run on an old xbox or other computer hardware to play movies + music etc. I used to talk about this a lot...
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