RE: Comfort

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Steve,

Comfort already rings me on alarm etc - and I could implement an SMS or
email to phone if needed - but I was thinking more about a third party
response service i.e. they confirm whether an alarm is false or not and
then contact the Police. Whether the Police then respond though is another
question!

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: steve.cooper@xxxxxxx [mailto:steve.cooper@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 17 December 2003 09:39
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Comfort
>
>
> > 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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