updated README

README.rst

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 hackPump
 ========
 
-Control a heat pump over the internet using a `Raspberry Pi <http://raspberrypi.org>`_ 
-and an `IR Toy <http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/USB_Infrared_Toy>`_.  Actually this
-project could be used to control any IR device from a Google calendar, not just a heat
-pump.  It can handle very long IR codes, so should be able to handle most 38 KHz signals.
+Control any 38 KHz infrared device using Google Calendar for scheduling.  I'm using a 
+Raspberry pi `Raspberry Pi <http://raspberrypi.org>`_ and an 
+`IR Toy <http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/USB_Infrared_Toy>`_ to manage my heat pump.
 
-Project Goals
+Highlights
 -------------
 
-- To make a simple utility that can poll a Google Calendar and get the summary for a
-  current event.
+- Simple and small python programs to query a Google Calendar for the current event.
 
-- Send an IR Code to a device (in this case a Mitsubishi heat pump) based on the calendar
-  event.
+- Gets the corresponding IR code from a JSON file of IR codes.  In my case this is a
+  list of temperatures and codes.
+
+- Sends the IR code to the device using the IR Toy.  It will only send a new signal if
+  it's different from the last one sent.
+
+- Can handle very long IR codes, much longer than Lirc or the IguanaIR can handle.  This
+  is needed for the Mitsubishi heat pump IR codes.  Has been used to successfully send a
+  15 second IR signal.  Note: this project is not compatible with Lirc, but the IR Toy
+  can be used with Lirc directly.
 
 Why?
 ----
 
 - My Mitsubishi heat pump is great but only has a very simple timer.  You can purchase a
   programmable thermostat, but it's expensive and doesn't do anything I'm after.
-  Being able to control this with a Google Calendar would be ideal since it is a very 
-  powerful calendar that is available from the web, smartphones, and has a well documented
+  Being able to control this with a Google Calendar is ideal since it is a very 
+  powerful calendar that is available from the web, smart phones, and has a well documented
   API for communicating with it.  No need to reinvent the wheel.
 
 - I'm interested in being able to set the temperature of my house before I get home or
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 Project components
 ------------------
 
-- A Python module for transmitting and receiving IR codes from an IR Toy.  The IR Toy is
-  an excellent USB IR transceiver, perfect for this application.  The module I wrote is 
-  called PyIrToy.  See the github project page for more info: `PyIrToy <https://github.com/crleblanc/PyIrToy>`_.
-  This simple module makes it easy to communicate with the IR Toy, and is worth looking into
-  if you're using the IR Toy and don't feel the desire to work with C.  I decided to split
-  this into two separate projects, since PyIrToy is far more generic than this project.
+- A Python module for transmitting and receiving IR codes from an IR Toy.  See the github 
+  project page for more info: `PyIrToy <https://github.com/crleblanc/PyIrToy>`_.
+  I split this into a different project and added it to pypi to make it easy for others to
+  use.
 
-- A command line program called hack_pump.py.  This polls a public Google calendar and gets 
-  the current calendar event.  It then transmits the corresponding IR code with the Ir Toy.
-  Keeping things simple, I intend on having a cron job on the Pi that calls this program once 
-  every few minutes to see if it should transmit a new IR code.
+- A command line program called hack_pump.py.  This is the main part of this project, it
+  queries the Calendar and sends an IR code if required.
 
 - Two command line utilities called record_codes.py and transmit_codes.py for recording and
   transmitting IR codes.  transmit_codes.py is mainly used for testing the recorded codes.
-  record_codes.py records the IR codes to a JSON file that can be used by hack_pump.py.  Note:
-  The IR utilities in this project do not use or supplement LIRC.  The codes from my heat pump 
-  were too long to be used with LIRC, so I rolled my own solution.
+  record_codes.py records the IR codes to a JSON file that can be used by hack_pump.py.