RE: Comfort

[steve.cooper@xxxxxxx]

> I've been thinking about one of these services - anyone know how much
they cost?

I achieve something similar by the following method:

1) My Comfort communicates directly with my HomeVision box which picks up
AM (System Alarm Reports)
2) HomeVision sets a variable based on the alarm code (Also starts a timer
to reset variable to 255 after a few seconds)
3) The xPL_HomeVision plugin sees the change in the HV variable and sends
out a xPL message.
4) This message gets changed into a more sensible message (e.g. Intruder
alert at 11:54) by a VBScript in xplhal which sends out a  Sendmsg.Basic
xpl message
5) This gets picked up by the SendMYTxt xpl sender which sends out the text
message and the script also sends out a mail message.

All this happens very quickly.  Obviously if they cut your broadband link
at the same time and the telephone line (I have cable so it's a different
line coming in at a different place) you're stuffed but it does demonstrate
how you can get things talking to each other using xPL.

S.



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