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And at some point I'd like to start switching over to Matter devices, since they seem to be the future if you believe all the hype. I haven't done any research into it to figure out what my controller options are or how to even start writing a HouseBot interface for it.

I just have a couple of old X10 things. One is really far away and would be out of the range for the ZWave controller.

The thing about X10 is... it's cheap, and it works.

Steve,

As far as how HouseBot can control Alex devices, it can't directly. I believe Alexa does have a way to do this from HouseBot, but I remember the API for doing it was going to be a lot of effort to implement. And for me, I just have Alexa control HouseBot (ZWave and a X10).

Version 3.56 has been released with the following changes. New HotKey Device Plugin. Updated the MQTT Hardware Interface to use the latest mqtt support files. MQTT: Now will automatically reconnect if the connection is lost. Fixed an issue where task conditions with substitution values may be replac...

Try this version and see if it helps.

It will reconnect (might take about 5 or 10 seconds to get fully reconnected). Just copy it over the old MQTT.DLL in your Plugins\Interfaces directory.

Your findings are correct. Each panel has it's own scale settings. The idea for that was to allow you to scale up a small pop-up or scale down a large panel to make the fit on various android screens easier. However, I do see your point where it would be easier to scan an entire theme at the same sc...

James, I'm not much of an expert on Raspberry's, but unless it can run a Windows emulator, there's little chance that a SWRemote would actually run. My Raspberry Pi can run NodeRed, and with HouseBots new NodeRed integration you could probably put together something. Or if you can find an applicatio...

If you are using the old HBDotNet DLLs, see this post.

If you are using the HBDotNet code that was written by a couple of HouseBot users, you will need to update the HBDotNet DLLs or HouseBot will crash on startup when loading the Devices. You can download the new compatible versions here . Just copy them over the old DLLs. I've never created anything w...

Version 3.55 has been released with the following changes. New: Support for Bond Bridge Fan Controller. New: Web View Theme control for displaying websites on Software Remotes. New: New Theme control button type for controlling the Web View (Forward, Backward, Refresh, Stop, Zoom In/Out) Minor ZWave...

The "send()" error is pointing to a network connection issue. These can be caused by a lot of things (timeouts due to network latency or traffic, firewalls, etc.). In that trace, I can see there is a fair amount of network send/receive activity happening pretty quickly. While that's not a ...

Great!

Version 3.54.10 is a minor release with the following changes. Fix for Theme font character set issues with symbol and international fonts. Fix for task issue where deleting a Property Value change from a Task list might cause the Task to hang. Fix of Theme configuration issue where background and t...

Tony, I haven't checked out the Kodi update, so hopefully everything still works fine. I think Node-RED is a great addition that can help fill in many areas that HouseBot doesn't directly address. I know people have done some pseudo-mapping in the remotes by using server based scripts and image crea...

Version 3.54 has been released. The major update for this release is Node-RED support. HouseBot can now communicate natively with Node-RED by using the new HouseBot Node-RED nodes . Changes include: New support for Node-RED integration. New support for dynamically changing the text color of Button, ...