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Whenever I need something like that, i simply create a button to controll property A, and put a label on top of it with the value of property B.
This usually works ok.

I also had the same problem for some time. In my case it was caused by something in the ZWAVE hardware device, it kept communicating while HB was trying to shut down. If I removed the Zwave USB after I tried shutting down HB, the process would finaly die. Also, Disabling zwave right before shutting ...

I think you might be looking for \r\n

\n is a newline
\r\n is a return + newline

LostDreamer

Hi Chester, Sorry to hear about those problems, I have had the same problem for some months. When you use the polling interval, it is actually the same as periodically setting it to "get status", so they should behave exactly the same way. When I tested this some months ago, i came to the ...

Hi all, I just bought an RFXCOM transmitter mostly for controlling a few KAKU devices I have here, but I cant find any way to add the devices to HouseBot. With the RFXCOM Receiver I can select "HomeEasy Sensor" to monitor these devices, but with the RFXCOM Transmitter I seem to only be abl...

I dont think so, the K8055 and K8056 have different communication, and different specs.


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LostDreamer

No I meen more something like: I have 50 devices which I would like to be able to control by twitter. (not all at once, but I would have to set them up in the array in your script). Then the script would check twitter for every value in the array (all 50 of them) to see if 1 of them was posted. Your...

Nice script, just 1 thing: If I want to control like 50 devices via twitter, this script will check twitter 50x every time you start the script. It would be better if it would check twitter once, then checks the XML for known commands. I'll see if I have a bit of time to make a few adjustments.... R...

Hey Richard, I still use the source software (also because this way I know that I wont miss any data if my HA software crashes/is offline) and use scripts to get the data into housebot from the xml files of it's webinterface. If you google for : plugwise maarten daamen You'll find his blog where he ...

Hey Richard, I use Plugwise for this: http://www.plugwise.com/nl/idplugtype-f/home-basic 9 plugs for €369,- Extension packs are also avaiable. They allow for very precise power logs, and switching on/off. It works as followed: 1) 1x USB stick for PC 2) 1x Circle+ (this plug will connect with the oth...

Sometimes when you tell HB to turn of a light, it will take about a second for the property to actually change.
If your page refreshes within this time, it will still show the old state.

The example probably worked well because it was a NULL device (and thus, no delay when switching on / off)

in favor of creating a new plugin you could also use the SuperTweet service: http://www.supertweet.net/about/documentation For this, you can setup oAuth between an account at supertweet and your account at twitter and use the old VBscript from the download section with the only adjustment being that...

Twitter has moved from basic authentication to oAuth.
If you want I can create a new script later today, shouldnt be to hard.

LostDreamer

The easiest way would be to use a webserver, a (very) little bit of ASP / PHP code for getting/setting values and a bit of javascript to update values. I've attached a screenshot of what I made it look like. I can upload the needed files later today if you would like to play around with it. Regards,...

The waitcommevent error looks like the USB gets disconnected.
Are you sure there is no OS (driver) problem or anything else at that time?

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