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No luck in contacting Edward. I tried PM which typically notifies folks by their registered email. I'll try direct email + the latest email he has on his website. It's a real shame it doesn't work for some folks. Tim Update: Edward responded by email. Hopefully he'll hop onto this thread and we'll g...

When referring to one plugin/dll, I meant one per device. I totally realize that one plugin per device is required and this could rapidly ramp up to potentially thousands for all devices. My HA "server" is fanless, 1 GHz, 512Mb RAM, 512Mb Flash, running XP embedded. Hence my concern for lo...

Could be a very interesting project when it comes to thinking outside the HB box... ie Not just using it for the users calander, but also HBs calendar. You could conceivably build your automation schedule on Google and have HB pikc it up... Lights on at 6pm, temperature change at noon, alarm arm at ...

You should be able to get to your content node easily with the vbscript xml capabilities, but after that it will be string matching to get what you need. You could setup a whole bunch of string matches for the bits which are consistent, and then grab the positions of each, break it into sub strings ...

Hi Steve, Are you green to XML in general or XML parsing in vbscript? From what I've learned doing a ton of XML stuff in my C++ web server plugin and javascript client, is that all libraries pretty much work the same way. Define you xml document, load stuff into it, define your root element, and the...

I'm running Windows 7 Pro.
Jacco, What is your version of Windows7 you tried on your virtual box? Was it a bare bones install? Did you have any other hardware interfaces?

I'm about to PM the creator of xap for HB, but am not expecting much... Last time he visited was 2009.

Tim

I tried... And got the same thing... HB-xap-crash.png My HB dev platform is on Windows 7. But I doubt that's the reason. From experience in writing my plugin, the interface has passed something onto HouseBot that Housebot really does not like. I don't know if ERS Pearson still maintains the xap plug...

Based on Neil's post on xap... Post Posted Mon Apr 02, 2012 6:13 am by NW27 Ben, To make xAP work you first need to understand/do a couple of things - 1. xAP is a UDP protocol that uses port 3639. Only one application on the PC can use this port. It cannot be shared. So to make xAP work with multipl...

I have been taking a look at the serial protocol for the Omnistat's... And it's bit more complicated than I thought. Still very do-able with vbscript in HB, but as an fyi, I'm not going to have the time in the near future to work out a script with you. There are some code snippets out there on the i...

I should have scrolled up the post and taken my own advice... xAP is probably better and easier than trying to crunch through 1-wire data with a scipt and generic serial device. That being said, I'm not a xAP user so can't help on that piece. Anyone else have recent details/instructions on using 1-w...

Hi Ben,
What properties did you create for your thermostat device?
Tim

Hi Mark,
I think I found my problem.
I've updated the plugin. Let me know if it works.
Thanks
Tim

Hi Mark,
That's some pretty comprehensive testing.

It definitely sounds like something I'm not doing correctly in my plugin. Let me do some PMing with Scott and I'll keep you posted.

Tim

Hi Ben, Let's dive right in and setup your serial connections for both your 1-wire and T-stat... On the Hardware Interface folder, click Add Interface. You will want to add a Generic Serial Module; give it a name such as Thermostat Interface (or whatever you desire);click through to until you are ad...

Possibly an esoteric request from most peoples perspective...

Go from ASCII/ISO-8859-1 character set to UTF-8. This will allow for multi-language support in user definable fields.

(Hidden agenda, it'll make my life easier in webRemote AJAX requests which are force encoded to UTF-8)

Tim