HouseBot

Here are the files I promised. Install the HBDotNet files per the instructions in the first post in this thread. The EnergyMonitor project is for this whole house energy monitor I recently purchased. Both plugins should compile and allow you to create the devices. Neither will start though unless yo...

I'll post the C# stuff later today (probably around 16:30 Pacific time). I'll ask him about the VB6 wrapper when I get a chance.

-- Dave

A while back I was able to make contact with Peter (the guy who wrote the old VB6 wrapper). It's a long story but the short version is that a few days later he sent me the beginnings of a newly-written C# wrapper for HouseBot! (he did it for the challenge :D ). After a few rounds of revisions I star...

Yeah - there's definitely something going on. I am seeing this error too. In addition I just had the server process crash four or five times in a row. When it finally stabilized enough that I could investigate I found that two of my three remotes were in one of their continual restart modes. I close...

No worries Scott. I'm busy finishing up a plugin for the whole-house energy monitor I just bought anyway so I'm somewhat busy right now as well.

FYI - I have tracing turned on at the server. I didn't see anything that looked helpful but if you want my log let me know. And of course I'm always willing to test something if it would help. It "feels" like this stuff may be related somehow. I don't know if this is a coincidence or not b...

More information. After I closed and re-started the remote it is currently behaving properly (except that it still never blanks out on its own). It looks like maybe there's an intermittent issue?

-- Dave

The plot thickens. Here's what I found out from my testing. If I start the remote and leave it alone the screen never blanks (I left it for over 10 minutes). As soon as I manually blank the screen (using a "Blank Remote" button) the process starts. Something else odd is that I found is tha...

That's a good idea! I'll try that tonight when I get home.

Does that mean that if any of the properties currently being displayed changes value then the screen will unblank? If so then that answers the question because I show the current time (HH:MM) on an overlayed "common" panel.

-- Dave

Nope - it's a dedicated software remote. The log entries I posted were generated in the middle of the night while I was sleeping. It's very odd. Can you tell me what kind of activity triggers the "Activity received" message?

Just recently I decided to turn off the Windows screen saver on my Q1 and use the HB screen blanking functionality instead. This is much nicer now that I can unblank a remote from the server :D. However last night I discovered something odd. I set the "Inactive Time..." option on the remot...

This morning when I first woke up I did an experiment. I left the Q1 untouched and I logged in to the HB server via my laptop. What I found was that the bedroom remote wasn't even in the Software Remote list. As I was looking at the logs (I still hadn't touched the Q1 yet) it all of a sudden decide ...

Ok - I've turned on socket tracing on the server and I'll let you know if anything interesting shows up. I also thought about looking at the state of the remote so I'll keep an eye on that (although often this is happening when I'm not even home). I just got home a few minutes ago and the remote was...

Just to contribute to the idea pool, here is what my version of this looks like: ClockRadio.png And here is the corresponding script code (run when "Set Time" is pressed): sHour = GetPropertyValue("Bedroom Clock Radio.Alarm Hour") sMinute = GetPropertyValue("Bedroom Clock Ra...