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I use the 'webdings' font to display the video controls (play, stop, pause,FF, REW). That does not display well on the PocektPC (IPAQ). Most of the characters are different or do not display anything at all. I guess that the PPC fonts are different from those of Windows PCs. Has anybody found a font...

Got it done in a different way. Instead of interrupting the vb script, I created a sleep device and started/stopped it from the vb scripts. So now the scripts look like: ' ================================= On Error Resume Next SetPropertyValue "Sleep Timer-Drape.Running", "No" ' ...

I want to control drapes. That requires closing a contact (using an rs232 digital IO unit), sleeping enough time (15 seconds) and releasing the contact. In order to be able to interrupt that action, I created vb scripts for UP, DOWN and STOP. Each script changes the others' device's state to "s...

Maybe it is just too late in the night, or maybe it's because my favorite basketball team had a terrible game. I must be missing something here. I want to trigger a VB script when some value is changed. Specificaly, make a VB script been fired when a 'TV Channel' numeric property (1-999) changes. An...

Thanks for the links Scott.



In my country we use 230VAC, and from what I've seen the devices are designed for 110VAC.



I will search further.



Yoram.

That technology sounds cool. Their site doesn't offer any devices. Can anyone give links to Z-wave devices?



Thanks,

Yoram

I have a similar problem with a pocket PC. I know it is NOT a housebot problem because it also hangs when I browse with the PocketPC on another PC through the WiFi network. I believe that something is wrong with the WiFi settings, but I can't tell what. If you find a solution that works for you, ple...

So it sounds like the limiting factor is the rate at which the USB-UIRT can send the IR codes. Right??

Yes, that's the bottleneck.



Yoram

Thanks for the tip Scott. It helped me realize how wrong I was :? I had to increase the button's repeat value rather than decrease it. I also reduced the repeat count of the USB-UIRT IR code to the minimum of '2' (for some reason, it does not work with '1'). The button's repeat value is now at 350 m...

The repeating feature is great. It's 'every' property is limited to a minimum of 100 ms. When I use it to control a receiver's volume, this delay is annoying and ends up in the volume going up/down long after the button is released. I suppose that a short repeat rate may cause problems. However, I w...

You probably can do it by changing the data in the access tables, but you need to have ms-access installed. If you have, first make a backup of the file C:\Program Files\HouseBot\Config\HBdata.mdb. Then, Double-click it to run ms-access and open it. Find the device in the 'Devices' table and memoriz...

If a hardware interface cannot load at the launch of HB, the device becomes disabled. For example, if the USB-UIRT plug is not connected to the PC. After connecting the plug and restarting HB, the device is still disabled, and needs to be enabled manually. I suggest that if a device is disabled by H...

You are one of a kind Scott!



The sample is great!

That's what I need, and it works just as want it to.



Thank you so much,



Yoram.

OK Scott, Maybe explaining the protocol will make it clear (or maybe not :D ). I didn't give all the details in the first place in the thought that I only need to understand how to put a parameter in. We are talking about cards that are connected to a serial ports. The cards can be attached to each ...

Hi Scott, The serial device that I use is for digital I/O. It has 14 'pins' that I can change their state individually to 'high' or 'low', and to read their current state. I use it for controlling relays. I would like to use a short list of commands and to put the 'pin letter' on the fly. For exampl...