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Re: Homeseer and Winamp
- To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: Homeseer and Winamp
- From: "PatrickLidstone" <patrickl@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 12:48:16 -0000
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--- In ukha_d@y..., "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@h...> wrote:
> 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...
This really isn't hard to do - I have a similar requirement and will
add it to the project list - although Winamp is lower on my list of
priorities than caller id (almost done) and comfort (also underway).
Because of (a) the requirement for fault tolerance (ability to run a
standby homeseer server) and (b) the need for an infinite number of
serial ports, I'm working on split-brained plug-ins which can be
deployed on the same machine or across a network. This also opens up
the possibility of other apps interfacing to the end device (comfort,
winamp, caller id) in parallel with Homeseer.
Patrick
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