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Muck as I hate to say it, from my perspective of what M$ is going to support in the future, Writing for an NT service is going to be a wasted effort. M$ has been making that very clear whether we like it or not. The only fully supported environment for the future is .NET They have pretty much force...

HI I wish to setup a watering system. allot of the device you mention X10 are not available in new zealand So wish to build my own interface ideally I would like to use the parallel port but i see that is no an option ??? So i believe my only choice is the serial port Use a BasicStamp or ATOM http:...

ScottBot: Happy New Year. Thanks for the reply. I tried the new driver, but it did not work. So I fired up a little program called portmon. The old driver and the new driver work while portmon is running but not when it's not. I tried this experiment on two different machines with the same results....

The reason that your VB codes is not working is because I initialize the socket resources (with WSAStartup()) in a method (OnStartPage()) that is called by IIS when the web page is loaded. I also clean up the socket resources in a method that is called by the web server when the page is unloaded. S...

Scott,



Was this changed in the last version or two? The code worked previously and then I realized I updated the external control and then it broke.



I'll test the new version and let you know how it works out but was curious if the change was recent as I know it worked before.

OK I'm losing my mind... I'm trying to get this very simple VB code to work which worked before but now it fails. Strangely though, the ASP templates work fine so the control is obviously registered. I double checked the reference in VB as well.. HBControl.exe works fine too. :? Any ideas?? Option E...

Can I leave the existing function called Connect and just add a doConnect? I don't really want to invalidate anything that others have been working on. Scott Should work.. Delphi does an override method for connect and disconnect since they exist and are used by the COM layer to control connecting ...

Version 1.62 and the new External Control Plugin is now on the web site. Let me know how it goes. Scott Scott, I've been having an issue getting the External Control DLL to connect to the server when using the DLL in Delphi. I finally dug into it and Delphi uses Connect and Disconnect methods to co...

More commands for handling motion would be useful... In the mean time, here are a couple of approaches that might work.. Use a delayed turn off time of say 1 minute... Every time motion is detected push this value out again which essentially keeps things working until movement is stopped and the tim...

At the risk of showing my ignorance, is it possible that VB is typecasting the hex characters into ASCII because you're combining them with a string to assign to a variable? I did some testing.... The following code returns the results that you experienced (ie, 0VOL2B1 is displayed in the message b...

MediaStorm wrote:

pzand wrote:Per your request, I have made a plugin for HouseBot that allows you to define DDE devices.

http://users.planetcable.net/pzand/ddedevices.zip

SNIP..

This link is dead.. Anyone have an alternate link or a copy of the zip?

Nevermind... I found a copy I downloaded a while back.



Thx.

pzand wrote:Per your request, I have made a plugin for HouseBot that allows you to define DDE devices.

http://users.planetcable.net/pzand/ddedevices.zip

SNIP..

This link is dead.. Anyone have an alternate link or a copy of the zip?

How in the heck do I send something like this via a serial command: Chr(0) + "VOL2B" + Chr(1) (2B is actually a hex value that it is replaced via %x%) I'm going nuts trying to figure out how to get the damn ctrl characters sent without them getting converted to ASCII. The returned variable...

How about the inclusion of a command 'suffix' and 'prefix'? Many devices want a certain control character before the command and another after the command.. Kenwood receivers, for example, use a format like this: Ctrl-A<COMMAND>Ctrl-B Command looks something like VOL2B which is a combination of Asci...

ScottBot wrote:Not yet.

It requires changes in the HouseBot server, so it's waiting on that release. Hopefully at the end of this week, or early next week.

Scott

Excellent.. Once the new version is out I might be up to tackling a generic template for ASP but need the extra features to make it a reality.