HouseBot

Richard, I've been following the Echo thread and have an Echo on the way. (I've threatened to get one anyway, but Scott's post put me over the edge.) Anyway, any particular reason you went with Mongoose web server instead of Windows built-in? Just curious... And I'm getting fired up to play with th...

On top of Scotts Tip about the Amazon Echo the other day I would like to add the following. To be able to send data to HouseBot, use the External Control device just like the Echo example in the Tips and Tricks section. Set it to ASCII = NO and assign a port. I downloaded Mongoose webserver and assi...

In my example the output should be found in: objStdOut.ReadAll and parse it or save it to an .xml file from there.

Not sure if you can use the pipe | symbol in a string like that. Sometimes Progra~1 or something like that will work. Or use the example from the code below. Function Get_WhoIs(Data) Dim objShell Dim objExec Dim objStdOut Dim arrContent Dim strCountry Dim strNetwork Dim strOwner Set objShell = Creat...

It would make (or actually would have made) a huge difference if indicators could sit on top of buttons where they would Always be visible and not disappear underneath the button when clicked while the underlaying button remains clickable. If this works in Android, it certainly makes it easy to crea...

I also sometimes have HBServer not restarting because of a hanging process thread. Never looked into which one it was but will do so next time. After your second restart where the timer errors seem to be resolved, you still have the problem of the timers reverting to zero instead of there startup ti...

Compact Always works for me from Access 2003 and now Access 2010. Never tried 2013 though. In the startup task, I set all my timers to the correct value because lots of times when HB crashes and corrupts the dbase, the timers revert to 0. Probably most important thing I do is create a complete backu...

Been doing it like this since 2006. The wildcard binds the same way standard serial command words do. It is in the help files

watching a movie right now so really no clue if I am processing this zobie thread (2009 ) the right way but maybe this is what you are missing. The wildcard * attached to the property...

Nicely done!

Scott, why use the UPNP interface and not write a layer based on the internal message structure. I have not looked into the XBMC message structure yet but from what I can see by using iDevice apps controlling XBMC, it goes way beyond UPNP. I suppose it works much like the Meedio message structure do...

Thought about it a lot but Meedio still handles all my needs. But XBMC is most definately the way to go forward and would be a nice project to integrate.

A work around would be to have the Task call a script command containing the context ID.

My setup (Meedio / HouseBot) gets a full backup each and every day done by Acronis with a rotation of four days. So the fourth bakup deletes the first thus keeping the latest three backups each new day. I have never worked with the internal backup so no help there. As for the Timespan error; I see t...