Re: Re: Homeseer and Winamp

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

>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).

I had a look at this briefly last night, and found a plugin on the Winamp
site thast looks like it should be able to do most of what my helper
service
did... - http://www.winamp.com/plugins/detail.jhtml?componentId=17568

You send it a formatted http command, and it returns the requested
information. Put the correct command in a hs.geturl statement in a Homeseer
script, and the returned details can be read straight into a variable in a
HS script. For example, use:
s=hs.geturl("computername", "/isplaying?p=pass", false,
80)
and the variable s will be one of 0, 1, 3 for stopped, playing, paused,
respectively.

I've only played with briefly, and I haven't worked out some annoying bugs
yet, but it looks promising. Of course, it only responds to a request from
the remote machine, so it can't automatically generate an event to notify
Homeseer every time the track and/or status changes...]



>Because of (a) the requirement for fault tolerance (ability to run a
>standby homeseer server)

I already run a standby Homeseer server - it monitors the primary one and
takes over if it fails. - although of course, I don't have all the same
hardware replicated on the standby server (Ocelot, DS1820's etc.), so
certain functionality is lost, but it *is* enough to keep security lighting
schemes going, and also lets me be aware by SMS text message that there is
a
problem with the primary 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.
>

I have 6 serial ports on my HA server currently, plus a couple of USB to
RS232 dongles on standby as well should I need them...

Paul G.




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