Fw: Re: Has ANYONE got the Comfort <> Homeseer plug in working ?

["garygfx" <garygfx@xxxxxxx>]

Using 1.5.60 here (downloaded last week) and works fine with the 
plugin. Must be you Gareth, but perhaps selling me your Tivo will 
magically make it work! ;-)

Gary.


--- In ukha_d@y..., "Gareth Cook/UK/IBM" <gcook@l...>
wrote:
> Right - now that my meagre brain has grasped the concept of the 
value 
> channging to 1 and then 0 4 seconds later, I can get that working.
> 
> BUT !
> 
> I'm using build 152 (build38) and it works fine. I want to use some
> scripts that require build 39 or later. Ive tried build 60 , but 
the 
> Comfort plugin barfs totally (homeseer exits). Another build just 
gives me 
> runtime 13 errors and no more comfort plugin action occurs (normal
> homeseer operations continue)
> 
> Now I know this isnt my fault !
> 
> G.
> 
> 
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> ----- Forwarded by Gareth Cook/UK/IBM on 12/07/2002 21:59 -----
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> "PatrickLidstone" <patrickl@t...>
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> [ukha_d] Re: Has ANYONE got the Comfort <> Homeseer plug in 
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> 
> I missed the start of this thread (hectic life etc). For those who
> don't know, I wrote the comfort plug-in.
> 
> There have been one or two reports of weirdness - which usually 
turn 
> out to be comfort related (it seems very idiosyncratic) - but I 
know 
> there are many (tens of) happy users out there.
> 
> As I tried to explain to Gareth in e-mail previously, the following
> is spot on the money, and is also covered in the docs IIRC.
> 
> >   > You do realise that the plugin reports the
status of the 
Zones 
> as 0
> >   > or 1, not as ON and OFF. The Homeseer events do
NOT respond 
when
> >   you
> >   > are looking for a status of ON or OFF. You need
to trigger 
> events
> >   > using the option to check for a change in
VALUE.
> 
> The reason for this is that sensors can report intermediate values
> other than just on and off - although the UCM has limited support 
for 
> this at present. The Homeseer API is sufficiently brain dead to be
> unable to support the concept of an "On"/"Off"
threshold/value - so 
I 
> didn't have a choice.
> 
> >   > While this works nicely if you're just checking
for a change 
in
> >   > value, I can't get it to work if I want a
conditional 
trigger. 
> e.g.
> >   a
> >   > change in value AND it's after sunset.
> >   >
> >   > I hope this helps with your problem. Perhaps
someone can help 
> with
> >   > mine?
> >   >
> 
> If I've understood what you want to achieve, then this is possible
> too, I think.
> 
> Within Homeseer:
> 
> From Event Properties page, in Description pane, select 
event "Type" 
> as "By condition".
> 
> The should change the bottom pane to indicate "Trigger when all
of 
> the given conditions are true".
> 
> Multiple conditions can then be added through the dialogue.
> 
> Gary, I will send you a screen shot when I have access to a decent
> net connection.
> 
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 
> 
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