RE: Homeseer and Winamp

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Pedro,

I'm pretty certain that I will still have all the source for this
(somewhere!) - trouble is, I just rebuilt almost every PC in the house with
XP, so they're all clean, and I don't know where half of the stuff is!

I'm slowly getting things back into order though, although new problems
arise of course, - like Pc-Anywhere isn't compatible with XP so I can't use
that anymore at the moment, plus I need an update to NAV as well to work
with XP...

Ho-hum, and I thought technology was supposed to make life easier!

Paul G.



>From: Pedro de Oliveira <p.oliveira@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: "'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Homeseer and Winamp
>Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 22:41:26 -0000
>
>Hi Paul
>
>You don't perchance have a version compiled for build 24 ;-)
>
>Thanks for the quick response anyway.
>
>Pedro
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 26 January 2002 21:57
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Homeseer and Winamp
>
>Hi Pedro,
>
>Homeseerhelper was my work I'm afraid!
>
>I *DID* have it working perfectly here, but then I rebuilt a couple of
my
>PC's and actually stopped using it.
>
>I know other people have had problems with it, which seem to be related
to
>the COM database registrations and the GUID's for them... - basically,
the
>VB program needs to be compiled for the specific version of HS that is
>installed, and if you upgrade the homeseer .EXE to a newer version,
>homeseerhelper breaks, as it can no longer connect to the HS object via
>COM... I never did find a way round this... - I used to recompile the
>project every time I did an upgrade to the homeseer exe file...
>
>I have subsequently decided that I'm going to keep seperate PC's for HA
&
>jukebox anyway, so I won't be using Homeseer & Winamp on the same
machine
>anymore. (The integration between the HA system and the whole-house
audio
>system was pretty much the only reason I decided to run both functions
on
>the one PC...)
>
>I wanted to be able to do things like:
>
>* Have Homeseer know IF the jukebox was playing some music
>* Have homeseer know WHAT was playing on the jukebox
>* Have Homeseer be able to control the jukebox status
>
>All of which I was able to do with homeseer and winamp running on the
same
>PC, with my homeseerhelper applet providing the communication between
>them...
>
>Now that they're going to be on seperate PC's it will be a bit harder,
- I
>could attempt to use DCOM instead of COM for the Homeseerhelper, or I
think
>that ACE might be able to facilitate the same functionlity, which I am
>going
>
>to investigate...
>
>I'm also thinking seriously about trying to write a general plugin for
>winamp to provide a hook specifically for homeseer to communicate with.
>I've
>
>had a look at some of the winamp API's, - however learning C++ or
Delphi is
>really not on the cards at the moment, - too many other things to do
>first!.
>
>I've experimented with a wrapper that enables VB to be used, and I have
had
>limited success with that... (Got as far as making a plugin that loads
into
>winamp without any problems, but doesn't actually *do* anything other
than
>popup a message whenever winamp is stopped/started). When I get more
time,
>I
>
>do plan to work on this a bit more...
>
>Paul G.
>
>
>
>
> >From: Pedro de Oliveira <p.oliveira@xxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >To: "HA (ukha_d@xxxxxxx)" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> >Subject: [ukha_d] Homeseer and Winamp
> >Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 20:38:55 -0000
> >
> >Hi all
> >Some time ago - I got sent some scripts and Vb program that should
work
> >with
> >Winamp (sorry but I can't remember who sent it).  I have been
trying to
>get
> >this thing working after having upgraded to build 24 of Homeseer
and
>Winamp
> >2.78c.
> >
> >The problem I was getting before I upgraded was that the file
>Project1.exe
> >couldn't run.  It runs fine now but when I run homeseerhelper.exe
it
>tells
> >me that Homeseer is already running and after a while I get and
error
>"429"
> >"ActiveX component can't create object"
> >
> >I don't even know if the script/program came from this list or not
but
> >since
> >some of you run Homeseer I thought some of you might have been
able to do
> >what I want in Homeseer: get the currently playing tune into
Homeseer and
> >maybe even have Homeseer determine if Winamp is playing or not.
> >
> >So: I think the question is:
> >If Homeseerhelper = listmembers'
> >Then listmember = helpPedro ' Please ;)
> >Else listmembers = comeupwithsuggestions 'also please ;)
> >
> >Cheers
> >Pedro
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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