What does this project do?

[dandv]

I got here from a link without much context, and I can't quickly tell what this project is about.

The repo description could be more detailed. Thanks!

[CodeFoodPixels]

Hi Dan,

Just out of interest where was the link?

I'm currently rewriting the project anyway, so I'll make sure to spend some time on the readme/description.

To answer your question, Woodhouse is a bot written in Node that allows you to automate tasks or call APIs through plugins. As an example, one of the things I use Woodhouse for is to control the lamps around my house through the woodhouse-plugin-kankun-plug plugin. It can be hooked up to a few different chat services to allow you to communicate with it, I primarily use Google hangouts through xmpp, but I've written interfaces for slack and hipchat too.

Hopefully that answers your question.

[dandv]

I found the link in an internal thread here at Google.