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# =======                    TEH Doorbell Software                     =======
# =======                 Version 2.6.1  |  06/05/2009                 =======
# =======            By: Nick Viera |  http://www.tehhouse.us/         =======
# =======               Copyright (c) 2009 Nick Viera                  =======
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#   * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
#   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
#   (at your option) any later version.
#
#   * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
#   GNU General Public License for more details.
#
#   * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
#   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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In order to run TEH doorbell software, you will need the Python interpreter
installed on your system. Python can be obtained from their website at:
http://www.python.org/

In addition to the Python interpreter, you may need to additionally install
the modules called "pyserial" and "pyaudio" and potentially others in the
event that they did not come bundled with the distribution of Python that
you downloaded.

Lastly, this software was both created and tested using the Linux OS
(specifically, openSUSE 10.3). Due to the highly felxible nature of python
it should work on most platforms and operating systems that support python,
though some settings may need to be changed for non-UNIX-like operating
systems.


Once Python and appropiate dependencies are installed, edit the
"settings.py" file to configure TEH doorbell for your application. Then run
"doorbell_2.6.1.py" and enjoy.

For more information about TEH doorbell software and the hardware it is
designed to work with, please see the TEH doorbell page on 
http://www.tehhouse.us/  which is at:
http://www.tehhouse.us/software/tehdoorbell/


-Nick Viera