[misterhouse-users] timer coding question

[Daniel N. <cj...@ma...>]

Hi all,
  I am trying to have misterhouse notice when a closet light is turned on.
Then set a timer for the light to turn off after 5 minutes, but if someone
manually turns off the light, for the timer to stop. That way, misterhouse
can monitor those lights (like a closet) that needn't be left on for long
periods of time. Being very new to Perl, I was wondering if someone could
help me along with the code for this. Also, what is the best way to test
my little snippets of code. Right now, I right a code.pl file and put it
in my code directory, when misterhouse tries to load it, I can tell if
there are errors....but I'm sure there is a better way.
           -Daniel